Outer Dark by Cormac Mccarthy

Outer Dark by Cormac Mccarthy

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A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; the brother 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 3 terrifying and strangers, headlong toward an apocalyptic resolution.

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Outer Dark by Cormac Mccarthy

By the author of the critically acclaimed "Border Trilogy", "Outer Dark" is a novel at once mythic 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; the brother 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. "McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters ...In his hands, everything is done with consummate skill" - "Village Voice". "McCarthy has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious" - "New York Times". "A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time" - "Time".
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including The Road and Blood Meridian. Among his honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature.
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ISBN 13 9780330314923
ISBN 10 0330314920
Title Outer Dark
Author Cormac Mccarthy
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Year published 2007-08-03
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.