25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America s westward expansion brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. One of The Atlantic s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s Blood Meridian 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. Look for Cormac McCarthy s latest bestselling novels The Passenger and Stella Maris.