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 Mc - Carthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.