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Jun 29, 1993 | ISBN 9780679728733 Buy
Aug 11, 2010 | ISBN 9780307762498 Buy
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Jun 29, 1993 | ISBN 9780679728733
Aug 11, 2010 | ISBN 9780307762498
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother’s lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright who has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A number of his works have been adapted into films, including All the Pretty… More about Cormac McCarthy
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