id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8512 Blood Meridian - Wikipedia .html text/html 5577 585 72 Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified under the Western, or sometimes the anti-Western, genre.[1][2] McCarthy's fifth book, it was published by Random House. Some have called it the Great American Novel.[4] American literary critic Harold Bloom praised Blood Meridian as one of the 20th century's finest novels.[29] Aleksandar Hemon has called it "possibly the greatest American novel of the past 25 years".[citation needed] David Foster Wallace named it one of the five most underappreciated American novels since 1960[30] and "[p]robably the most horrifying book of this [20th] century, at least [in] fiction."[31] The New York Times 1985 review noted that the novel depicted "scenes that might have come off a movie screen".[12] There have been attempts to create a motion picture adaptation of Blood Meridian, but all have failed during the development or pre-production stages. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8512.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8512.txt