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Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy (1993, Paperback, Reprint) 
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy (1993, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy (1993, Paperback, Reprint)

Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1993-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679728732
ISBN-13: 9780679728733
Product ID: EPID238163
Description: Cormac 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 aliv...
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Synopsis
Cormac 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.

Details
Publication Date:1993-06-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:8.0 oz

Publisher's Note
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.

Set 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.

Industry Reviews
"A perfectly executed work of the imagination..[.McCarthy] has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious."
Jacobs

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