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類型/形式: | Western stories Historical fiction Fiction Western fiction |
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資料類型: | 小說 |
文件類型 | 圖書 |
所有的作者/貢獻者: |
Cormac McCarthy |
ISBN: | 9781447289456 1447289455 |
OCLC系統控制編碼: | 923000264 |
註釋: | First published: New York: Random House, 1985. |
描述: | xiv, 352 pages ; 20 cm. |
叢書名: | Picador classics. |
其他題名: | Evening redness in the West. |
責任: | Cormac McCarthy. |
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McCarthy distances us not only from the historical past, not only from our cowboy-and-Indian images of it, but also revisionist theories that make white men the villains and Indians the victims. All men are unremittingly bloodthirsty here, poised at a peak of violence, the "meridian" from which their civilization will quickly fall. * New York Times Book Review * Blood Meridian is his masterpiece . . . An astonishing sanguinary epic dealing with the Indian wars of the 1840s in West Texas and Mexico . . . Unlike anything I have ever read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement. -- John Banville * Observer * McCarthy's achievement is to establish a new mythology which is as potent and vivid as that of the movies, yet one which has absolutely the opposite effect . . . He is a great writer. * Independent * A bloody and starkly beautiful tale -- Stephen Amidon * Sunday Times * Possibly the greatest American novel of the past 25 years. -- Aleksandar Hemon, author of THE LAZARUS PROJECT and NOWHERE MAN Unlike anything I have read in recent years, an extraordinary, breathtaking achievement. -- John Banville I have rarely encountered anything as powerful, as unsettling, or as memorable as Blood Meridian . . . A nightmare odyssey. * Evening Standard * 再讀一些...
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