Jim Brown reviewed Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by …
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"There is hardly in the world a waste so barren but some creature will not cry out at night, yet here one was and they listened to their breathing in the dark and the cold and they listened to the systole of the rubymeated hearts that hung within them." (293)