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What would you recommend as a Christmas present for my brother who enjoyed Blood Meridian? Something by another postwar American author?

>> No.7448139

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams

>> No.7448579

Border Trilogy bruh bruh next question

>> No.7448587

>>7448139

This is a great suggestion, some similar themes.

>> No.7448604

>>7448579
Is it dark in the same way as blood meridian or just bleak? I lust for dread. Help me pick a book.
How is child of god? How does Faulkner compare to McCarthy?

>> No.7448608

>>7448139
Thanks

>> No.7448775

>>7448604

Child of God is brilliant, as is Outer Dark. Both better stories than The Road. Butcher's Crossing is not as dark per se, but it certainly shows beauty in senseless violence and death in a similar manner to that of Blood Meridian.

>> No.7448877

>>7448604
Faulkner is superior to McCarthy in every conceivable metric

>> No.7449473

>>7448877
redditors please leave

>> No.7449482

>>7447368
Moby-Dick

>> No.7449539

The things they carried.

>> No.7450515

>>7449539
I wouldn't recommend that to anyone anon

>> No.7450520

>>7449473
the fuck did you just say to me you little bitch

>> No.7451557

>>7448877
In that regard also?
>>7448775
Thanks my friend

>> No.7452867

>>7447368
>>7449482
This

>> No.7452878

>>7447368
Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, The Karamazov Brothers

>> No.7452971

Butchers Crossing is a great suggestion.

If he likes more experimental stuff, The Beetle Leg by John Hawkes or Ghost Town by Robert Coover are great postmodern westerns.

I would also suggest Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.