Notes on Blood Meridian

John Sepich's NOTES ON BLOOD MERIDIAN is the first definitive study of Cormac McCarthy's dark masterpiece. Sepich examines in detail historical & biographical sources from which McCarthy drew his narrative, including maps, newspaper accounts & diaries. He also explores the bodies of arcane & scientific knowledge woven into the novel's dense structure & allusions, including astrology, tarot symbolism, the Faust legend, alchemy & techniques for making gun powder. The book includes appendices, concordances, translations of the novel's foreign language passages & an extensive bibliography. In his foreword, Shelby Foote writes, "John Sepich refers to his NOTES ON BLOOD MERIDIAN as 'a step toward insights into McCarthy's novel,' but the work is more of a stride...Sepich lets us see how the author went about crafting what he built, with the result that BLOOD MERIDIAN's dimensions are enlarged in depth as well as width, & the book becomes more of a wonderment than ever. This is constructive scholarship at its best." Discount Policy: Single copies $8.00 each, 2-10 copies $7.50 each, 11 plus, $7.00 each.Sepich, John is the author of 'Notes on Blood Meridian' with ISBN 9780963892706 and ISBN 0963892703.