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Summary:

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.

Author/Creator:

McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023 , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Outer dark [by McCarthy, C.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Outer dark [by McCarthy, C.] (1st Vintage International ed.; New York : Vintage Books, 1993 — OCLC Number 705896325)

Subjects:

Siblings — Fiction

Abandoned children — Fiction

Appalachian Region — Fiction

Incest — Fiction

American fiction — 20th century

1900-1999

Abandoned children

Incest

American fiction

Siblings

Appalachian Region

Genres:

Domestic fiction

Novels

Fiction

Physical Description:

242 pages ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

PS3563.C337 O9 1993

ISBNs:

0679728732 (paperback)
9780679728733 (paperback)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

92050588

OCLC Numbers:

27012711