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The best Western books
Frontier myth, moral geometry, big sky. The Cormac McCarthy register at one end, Louis L'Amour at the other.
2 reviews in this genre.
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Highest-rated western on the shelf
Blood Meridian
by Cormac McCarthy
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy 1985 review. A nameless teenager joins a band of Indian-hunters along the Texas-Mexico border in 1849. The most violent American novel of the late twentieth century and the rare McCarthy book that demands the prose attention it requires.
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 2005 review. A Texas welder finds a satchel of cash at a drug-deal massacre, and the man who comes for it does not stop. Late McCarthy in his cleanest thriller mode.
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