SOURCE: A review of Blood Meridian, in Western American Literature, Vol. XXI, No. 1, Spring, 1986, pp. 59-60.
In the following review, Baines comments briefly on the "cruelty," "inhumanity," and "gore" present in Blood Meridian.
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