Outer Dark by McCarthy, Cormac

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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Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/29/1993
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.14w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780679728733

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/17/1993
Library Journal 01/01/1994

About the Author
The novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men--the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.