Book Review: Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy

[inverarity]

The god of war and violence ghost-writes a Western under the pen name 'Cormac McCarthy.'

Comments

[thirdgorchbro]

I grew up reading Louis L'amour westerns, and when I read this book in my early 20s it warped my fragile little mind. Just an outstanding piece on violence and its place in American history and character. I will say that I hated, hated McCarthy's decision not to use quotation marks for dialogue, and I still have no clue what's going on in the epilogue.

[inverarity]

Oh yeah, I didn't even mention the epilogue. I have no idea either.

[anonymous]

Sheltered 19-year old here, pretty sure it's referring to the holes made in order to lay railroad track. It's an epilogue for the era as a whole; not the book specifically from what I can reckon.