Blood Meridian

Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the wild west. In his bestselling novel, McCarthy traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where Native Americans are being murdered and their scalps are being sold at market.