false 25394656 1268916 394535 0679728759 9780679728757 1446 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525m/394535.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174413525s/394535.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394535.Blood_Meridian_Or_the_Evening_Redness_in_the_West 4.24 7876 Blood Meridianbrilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.]]> 4178 4.00 105049 21005 1985 0 0 false Wed Jun 25 05:47:09 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 03 20:46:32 -0800 2008