Title:
Outer dark / Cormac McCarthy.
Author:
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
Call Number:
PS3563 .C337 O9 1993
Abstract:
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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Edition:
1st Vintage International ed.
ISBN:
9780679728733
Physical Description:
242 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, 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.
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