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|title=The Son

|sort=Son, The

|publisher=Simon & Schuster

|date=July 2013

|website=http://www.philippmeyer.net/

|video=9hIU3cXWmqQ

|summary=Meyer's sweeping Western saga about one Texas family – ranging from the 1840s to the present day – brims with violence and philosophical tension. This momentous American story ranks amongst the best novels of the new century.

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Philipp Meyer's second novel, ''The Son,'' is an epic, multi-generational saga of Texas life. Tracing the McCullough family from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present day, Meyer joins those writing today's masterpieces of American 'dirty realism': Ron Rash, [[:Category:David Vann|David Vann]], Richard Ford and especially Cormac McCarthy. Like McCarthy's ''Blood Meridian,'' ''The Son'' is a gory Western that transcends a simplistic cowboys-versus-Indians dichotomy to draw broader conclusions about the universality of violence in a nihilistic world.