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- Publisher: Random House Inc
- ISBN: 0679728732
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100063085
- Release Date: June 1, 1993
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #60695 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #7410 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #601 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Cormac McCarthy (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Outer Dark" by Cormac McCarthy to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Outer Dark"Browse more products related to "Cormac McCarthy"Review"A perfectly executed work of the imagination..[.McCarthy] has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious." Publisher's noteSet in Appalachia around the turn of the century, this evocative novel tells of a woman who bears her brother's child. The father hides the baby in the woods and tells his sister the baby died of natural causes. When she discovers the lie, she sets out to find her son and both parents move headlong toward an apocalyptic resolution. Out of print since 1984. 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 brothers 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. AnnotationCormac McCarthy's 1968 novel (his second) begins with the birth of a child to Rinthy Holme--a baby boy, who is taken off to the woods and left to die by Culla, Rinthy's brother--who is also the baby's father. Believing her son to be alive, Rinthy undertakes a quest to find him, and Culla begins to roam the Appalachian countryside on a mysterious quest of his own. He is menaced by three strangers--symbols perhaps of Culla's guilt--who commit heinous crimes for which Culla is blamed. McCarthy's dark tale has been compared to the kind of harsh folk fables that have traditionally been part of mountain culture. If You Enjoy "Outer Dark (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
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