Notes on Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian by John Sepich
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Overview: Blood Meridian, published in 1985, Cormac McCarthy’s epic tale of an otherwise nameless kid who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered to be one of the finest novels of the Old West, as well as McCarthy’s greatest work. The New York Times Book Review ranked it third in a 2006 survey of the best work of American fiction published in the last twenty-five years and in 2005 Time chose it as one of the 100 best novels published since 1923. Yet Blood Meridian’s complexity, as well as its sheer bloodiness, makes it difficult for some readers.
To guide all its readers and help them appreciate the novel’s wealth of historically verifiable characters, places and events, John Sepich compiled what has become this classic reference work. Tracing many of the nineteenth-century primary sources that McCarthy used, Notes on Blood Meridian uncovers the historical roots of the novel. In this new edition, Sepich has revised and expanded the book with a new preface and two new essays that explore key themes and issues in the work.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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