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Blood meridian

The tale of a dispossessed young man and the band of bloodthirsty mercenaries he joins up with in Mexico in the mid-1800s.

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  • "Evening redness in the West"@en
  • "Blood meridian"@en
  • "Evening redness in the west"@en
  • "Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West"@en

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  • "The tale of a dispossessed young man and the band of bloodthirsty mercenaries he joins up with in Mexico in the mid-1800s."@en
  • "The story of a teenage runaway known only as "the kid", who falls in with a group of notorious outlaws: the Glanton Gang. Violent, direct and extraordinarily powerful, the novel traces the destiny of "the kid" as he falls further and further from grace, and into the clutches of the mysterious and demonic Judge Holden."@en
  • "His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day.--"@en
  • "The tale of a dispossessed young man and the band of bloodthirsty mercenaries he joins up with in Mexico in the 1800s."@en
  • "'Blood Meridian' presents an epic novel of the violent American west. The story is loosely based on accounts of murder along the border between Texas and Mexico in the 1850s."
  • "His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another day."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Western stories"
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
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  • "Blood meridian, or, The evening redness in the West"
  • "Blood meridian"
  • "Blood meridian"@en
  • "Blood meridian [or, th evening redness in the West]"@en
  • "Blood meridian or, The evening redness in the west"@en
  • "Blood meridian or the evening redness in the West"@en
  • "Blood meridian, [or, the evening redness in the West]"@en

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