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Meridian is the type of book that I have to be in the mood to read. It is often dark and depressing especially when some characters, particularly Meridian, seem to throw away their opportunities or act rather foolishly, so if you want to read a light or happy novel, this isn't for you. If you like to read books that dwell on personality ...
Originally, Cormac McCarthy wanted “woodcut” illustrations as the icon headers for each chapter of Blood Meridian… but this idea was abandoned. So, I think, the author himself originally wanted a partially illustrated book. If someone could make an edition similar to what he had in mind it would be amazing.
Meridian is in some respects autobiographical, but Walker and Meridian Hill, the novel’s protagonist, differ in many significant ways. Both Walker and Meridian were raised in rural Georgia and became pregnant as young students, though Walker, unlike Meridian, did not have the child. While Meridian’s relationship with her mother was fraught with problems, Walker blossomed under the ...
1. Aug. 2007 · Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a 14-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into a nightmarish world where ...
22. Nov. 2011 · Meridian. Alice Walker. Open Road Media, Nov 22, 2011 - Fiction - 242 pages. “A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement” in 1960s Atlanta by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Ms.). As she approaches the end of her teen years, Meridian Hill has already married, divorced, and given birth to a son.
The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character of the United States. The term was coined by John William De Forest in an 1868 essay and later shortened to GAN. De Forest noted that the Great American Novel had most likely not been written yet.
1. Jan. 2002 · Barbara Randall Kesel, Steve McNiven (Illustrator), Joshua Middleton (Illustrator) 3.84. 334 ratings39 reviews. Sephie and her uncle Ilahn discover that they bear symbols of power shortly after Sephie's father, the Minister of Meridian, dies, and as Sephie learns more about her abilities, Ilahn begins to use his in his goal of world conquest.
