They join Glanton and his gang, among them Holden, and the bulk of the novel is devoted to detailing their activities and conversations. Arrested as a filibuster in Chihuahua, the kid is set free when his acquaintance Toadvine tells the authorities they will make useful Indian hunters. White's group is overwhelmed by an accompanying group of hundreds of Comanche warriors, and few of them survive. Army irregulars on a filibustering mission led by a Captain White. He first meets the enormous, pale, hairless Judge Holden at a religious revival in a tent in Nacogdoches, Texas, at which Holden falsely accuses the preacher of raping children and goats, inciting the audience to attack him.Īfter a violent encounter with a bartender establishes the kid as a formidable fighter, he joins a party of ill-equipped U.S. The novel tells the story of a teenage runaway referred to only as "the kid", who was born in Tennessee during the famously active Leonids meteor shower of 1833.
There have been multiple attempts to adapt the novel into a film, but none have succeeded. Some have labelled it the Great American Novel. The role of antagonist is gradually filled by Judge Holden, a physically massive, highly educated, preternaturally skilled member of the gang who is extremely pale and completely bald from head to toe.Īlthough the novel initially received lukewarm critical and commercial reception, it has since become highly acclaimed and is widely recognized as McCarthy's magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels of all time. In a loosely historical context the narrative follows a fictional teenager referred to as "the kid," with the bulk of the text devoted to his experiences with the Glanton gang, a historical group of scalp hunters who massacred Indigenous Americans and others in the United States–Mexico borderlands from 1849 to 1850 for bounty, pleasure, and eventually out of nihilistic habit. McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House. Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre.
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