| Outer Dark Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cormac (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679728732 ISBN-13: 9780679728733 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1993 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Sagas |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92050588 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.14" W x 8.08" (0.47 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |