Outer Dark

by Cormac McCarthy

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679728733
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/29/1993
Edition description:	Vintage International Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.13(w) x 7.95(h) x 0.57(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"He is nothing less than our greatest living writer." —Houston Chronicle

From the Publisher

Vintage will rerelease these previous novels from McCarthy to coincide with the paperback appearance of All The Pretty Horses : Outer Dark is a mysterious tale of an Appalachian family, while Child of God , also set in the hill country, tells of a violent ex-convict. (July)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

To coincide with the paperback release of McCarthy's National Book Award winner, All the Pretty Horses ( LJ 5/15/92), Vintage is reissuing these two earlier novels. Relating the story of a mother's search for her lost child, Outer Dark was described by LJ 's reviewer as a ``novel full of horror and pathos'' ( LJ 9/15/68). Child of God tells an equally bleak story with characters that comprise a ``sad human compost heap'' ( LJ 1/15/74). For serious fiction collections.

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