Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West Modern Library

Author	Cormac McCarthy
Format	Hardcover
ISBN	9780679641049
Publication Date	08/02/2001
Publisher	Modern Library

The novel is about a group of bandits in the southwest United States and Mexico in the 1850s. The focus is on one boy, the "kid," and his crimes.

Based on incidents that took place in the southwestern United States and Mexico around 1850, this novel chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid," a boy of fourteen.