Review of 'Blood Meridian'.

A western novel at its core, it satisfies, and then some, all of the requirements of the idiom.

Oh, lets not forget sheer enigma that comes thru as just the facts, just the way that it is. The banality of this hell world maybe is its most worrying undercurrent. Revealed in 1986, Blood Meridian is intrinsically unending. John Glanton was a Texan originally from South Carolina by way of Tennessee, like so many other Texans. Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own.

Oh, lets not forget sheer anomaly that comes thru as just the facts, just the way that it is. The banality of this hell world maybe is its most annoying undercurrent. Released in 1986, Blood Meridian is intrinsically changeless. There had been a John Glanton and a gang of scalp hunters under contract to the Mexican Governor of Chihuahua. John Glanton was a Texan originally from South Carolina by way of Tennessee, like so many other Texans. Blood Meridian is also an advisory story on the hazards of privatization of army and law enforcement. Chihuahua mexico. The historic threads, good and malicious, the mythology and fact. Set against a tripartite of a Mexican, Anglo, and indigenous American back drop.