"Blood Meridian" by Cormac McCarthy is a dark and violent novel set in the 1850s along the Texas-Mexico border. It follows a young man known as "the kid" as he joins a gang of scalp hunters led by the monstrous Judge Holden. The story depicts the brutality and nihilism of the American West, dismantling the romanticized myths of the frontier. The novel is known for its graphic violence and poetic prose, and is considered a masterpiece by many literary critics
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(A seasoned outlaw with whom the kid brawls and then burns down a hotel)
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(A member of the gang and formerly a novice of the Society of Jesus)
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(A mentally challenged man who becomes affiliated with the Glanton gang)
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(A huge, pale and hairless man who may or may not be supernatural)
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