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Full title is Blood Meridian Or the Evening Redness in the West.
Published in 1985 by Random House.
I read it in 2007, I think.
From the Publisher:
An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts 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 fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving.
First Line:
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged shirt.
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