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Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West CormacMcCarthy BloodMeridian.jpg First edition cover Author Cormac McCarthy Country United States Language English Genre Western, historical novel Publisher Random House Publication date April 1985 Media type Print (hardback and paperback) Pages 337 pp (first edition, hardback) ISBN 0-394-54482-X (first edition, hardback) OCLC 234287599 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 19 LC Class PS3563.C337 B4 1985 Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic Western (or anti-Western)[1][2] novel by American author Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House. The majority of the narrative follows a teenager referred to only as "the kid," with the bulk of the text devoted to his experiences with the Glanton gang, a historical group of scalp hunters who massacred Native Americans and others in the United States–Mexico borderlands from 1849 to 1850 for bounty, pleasure, and eventually out of sheer compulsion. The role of antagonist is gradually filled by Judge Holden, a huge, well-educated man depicted as completely bald from head to toe.