Blood Meridian

Nacogdoches, TX

The novel Blood Meridian paints a brutal, unsentimental portrait of America's dark past--a past including the wholesale massacre of American's indigenous inhabitants and scores of other violent calamities along the Texas-Mexico border. This dark section of America's history is poetically rendered in the style of the titans of our literature--Faulkner and Melville. Few American novels are so harrowing yet still display such authentic and audacious American verve.

Brandon