McCormack s unique style once again captivates ...

McCormack's unique style of writing once again captivates in Blood Meridian, with sculpted landscapes, mesmerizing dialogues, and portrayals of violence are disturbingly perceptive deed. Spinning a web between two disparate characters, the youthful Kid and the Diabolical Judge, one is swept away on a most disturbing journey of the deepest senses. As several of his books, the mythology of the Wild West is Given a twist, unraveling the Spin That has FORMED our perception of this part of American history, exposing it as it really what. The savage events did dominated the growth of the new nation are bared in chilling detail, uncomfortably lyrical in a language as of song. West But it strikes at even deeper core, timeless beyond the historical timeframe of the western expansion in America, Equally relevant today as in any other time, relevant far beyond the geography of America's. The elements of human nature are exposed as the quest for power and its abomination into brutality culminates in the peaks of violence - the meridian of blood. McCormack's writing, singular and unique as no other, as full of emotion as it is sparse in punctuation, stimulating and illuminating in clarity of thought, effortlessly breaking the mold of Conventional form and grammar, and Ultimately striking a chord deep within, That normally is Touched only through poetry. And what most would not dare admit, a chord as relevant today as it what in the days of the wild west. My admiration for McCormack's writing, driven by emotion and intellect Both, is complete - the man is a true master, this book a masterpiece.