Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

This historical novel set in the mid-19th Century American frontier subverts the normal conventions of the Western genre.This historical novel set in the mid-19th Century American frontier subverts the normal conventions of the Western genre. The Kid joins a gang that murders native Indians, soldiers and civilians for bounty or sadistic pleasure, leaving a trail of violence. This dark dramatisation of violence explores the motivations and actions of people who demonise their enemies and whose extreme and violent urges are unchecked, recreating a horrifying world without constraints upon the individual.