Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Heavy duty--wow--that's about all I can say about my first Cormac McCarthy read. Reminiscent of the dense, heavy, serious, epic writing of greats like Melville & Faulkner--where the land & environment take on characters of their own, fully developed & foreboding. The human personalities loom large & epic-like as they struggle in & against the landscape and those who are bound up with it as intricate, intertwining characters. The story is set in the Wild West along the Texas-Mexican border in the late 1800s. Not for the fainthearted, for sure--some grizzly details involving blood & redness...and the unfortunate cheapness of so many lives & peoples in a lawless border "nether" region. Writing that captivates and intrigues, that unfolds with biblical-like import, full of symbolism and similitude and seriousness...


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