上帝的憤怒沉睡著。它在人類出現之前百萬年就已經隱藏，也只有人類才有能力喚醒它。地獄還未滿。
科馬克·麥卡錫的《血色子午線》以美國西進運動帶來的混亂世界為背景，是一部史詩般震撼人心的作品，講述了人類對同類施加的野蠻暴力。十四歲的田納西州少年「小子」在德州與墨西哥邊境的險惡土地上游盪，很快便被捲入無情的血腥浪潮之中。然而，看似混亂的背後並非毫無秩序：當美國人獵殺印地安人，收集頭皮作為血淋淋的戰利品時，他們自己也成了獵物。
自1985年首次出版以來，《血色子午線》既被視為西部小說的一次精彩顛覆，也被視為該類型小說的傑出代表。它震撼人心、引人入勝、美得令人窒息，被譽為上世紀美國小說中最重要的一部作品。
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell aint half full.
Set in the anarchic world opened up by America’s westward expansion, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic and potent account of the barbarous violence that man visits upon man. Through the hostile landscape of the Texas–Mexico border wanders the Kid, a fourteen year-old Tennessean who is quickly swept up in the relentless tide of blood. But the apparent chaos is not without its order: while Americans hunt Indians – collecting scalps as their bloody trophies – they too are stalked as prey.
Since its first publication in 1985, Blood Meridian has been read as both a brilliant subversion of the Western novel and a blazing example of that form. Powerful, mesmerizing and savagely beautiful, it is established as one of the most important works in American fiction of the last century.
