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This stark novel is set in 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
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Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
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- Released
- 1993
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- Title
- Outer Dark
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cormac McCarthy
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1993
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 242
- ISBN10
- 0679728732
- ISBN13
- 9780679728733
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Women, Horror, USA, Children, American Literature, 20th century, Literary Fiction, Violence, Loss, Gothic, Mothers, Search, Loneliness, Poverty, Murderers, Gothic Horror, Countryside, Despair, Wilderness, Wandering, Incest, Southern Gothic, Tennessee
- First published
- 1968
- Original title
- Outer Dark
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- This stark novel is set in 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