Cormac McCarthy

Subscriber Saul Gliserman recommends "Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy:

I would think that most subscribers to VT would enjoy Blood Meridian immensely because of McCarthy's use of the English language. The book reads as an admixture of the Old Testament, Homer, Shakespeare and Melville. Although there is much gory realism, it is by no means gratuitous, and it conveys, in a profoundly realistic fashion, what life was like in the "Old West" of the mid-nineteenth century. The book left me with the utmost respect for McCarthy's talent, and I would rank him among this country's finest writers of any era.