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From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • 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.
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Outer Dark, Cormac McCarthy
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Outer Dark
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cormac McCarthy
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Released
- 2010
- ISBN13
- 9780307762498
- 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
- From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • 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.