Review of 'Blood Meridian'.

Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own. Theres bloody action, conflict, violence, gunplay, the wild spaces of the land of the North American Southwest, and of similar importance, the Mexican Northwest. Oh, lets not forget sheer ambiguity 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. Printed 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. Blood Meridian is also an advisory story on the risks of privatization of army and law enforcement. A western novel at its core, it meets, and then some, all of the prerequisites of the category. Theres bloody action, conflict, violence, gunplay, the wild spaces of the land of the North American Southwest, and of similar importance, the Mexican Northwest. A masterwork that hits all of the dots, Blood Meridian has lyricism , poetry, account, and musings philosophic, intertwined with sheer horror, populated by atrocious characters that are still totally plausible in all of their overboard malicious. Find out more on merle chihuahua. 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 annoying undercurrent. There had been a John Glanton and a gang of scalp hunters under contract to the Mexican Governor of Chihuahua. The historic threads, good and noxious, the mythology and fact.

Set against a tripartite of a Mexican, Anglo, and Indigenous American back drop.