bThe masterpiece Michael Herr of the iNew York Timesi bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of iThe Road, No Country for Old Men, The Passenger, i and iStella Marisi pCormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner. I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable.--Harold Bloom, from his Introduction pMcCarthy is a writer to be read, to be admired, and quite honestly--envied.--Ralph Ellisonb pWidely considered one of the finest novels by a living writer, iBlood Meridiani is an epic tale of the violence and corruption that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Its wounded hero, the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennessean, must confront the extraordinary brutality of the Glanton gang, a murderous cadre on an official mission to scalp Indians. Seeming to preside over this nightmarish world is the diabolical J