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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 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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McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters . . . In his hands, everything is done with consummate skill. (Village Voice)
A master in perfect command of his medium. (Washington Post)
A true American original. (Newsweek)
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A master in perfect command of his medium. (Washington Post)
A true American original. (Newsweek)
‘A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time’ Time
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- PublisherPeter Smith Pub Inc
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0844667498
- ISBN 13 9780844667492
- BindingHardcover
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