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Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st Vintage International edView all editions and formats
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This stark novel is set in 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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Fiction
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Outer dark.
New York : Vintage Books, 1993
(OCoLC)705896325
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 0679728732 9780679728733
OCLC Number: 27012711
Description: 242 p. ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: Cormac McCarthy.
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This stark novel is set in 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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