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Outer Dark
by Cormac McCarthy
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780679728733 
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Powells.com Staff Pick
The premise of Outer Dark is harsh: somewhere in Appalachia, a woman gives birth to her brother's child, which he quickly leaves in the woods to die.
The child is taken, however, and so survives. The sibling parents begin separate searches for their offspring, moving through violence and real horror.
Written with shattering lyricism, Outer Dark is not for the faint of heart.
Recommended by Gin, Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
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.
Review:
"A perfectly executed work of the imagination. [McCarthy] has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious." The New York Times
Review:
"McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without an equal in American letters....In [his] hands, everything is done with consummate skill — a kind of maximalism with precision crafting." Village Voice
Review:
"McCarthy's re-creation of the local dialect is surpassed by his poetic descriptions of the land and its people...a profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society at any time." Time
About the Author
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today. McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West — the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992, and The Crossing.
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awadeb, May 7, 2007 (view all comments by awadeb)
Outer Dark is one of my favorite McCarthy books. The novel is full of biblical themes and allegory but I don't think that it would put anyone off. The imagery is very clear and alluring. McCarthy does a great job of pulling the reader in to his dark, scary, and mysterious world from the first sentence. However, some of the imagery might be a bit too heavy for those with a queasy stomach. Although not nearly as gory as Blood Meridian, the situation in which Culla and Rinthy, ( the main characters), are involved, and the other characters they run into, are devastatingly haunting, and have not left my mind since reading the book. This book definitely ranks up there with Blood Meridian.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679728733
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Brothers and sisters
- Subject:
- Incest
- Subject:
- Abandoned children
- Subject:
- Tennessee
- Subject:
- Domestic fiction
- Subject:
- Incest -- Tennessee, East -- Fiction.
- Edition Description:
- 1st Vintage International ed.
- Series Volume:
- no. 1
- Publication Date:
- June 1993
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 256
- Dimensions:
- 8.08x5.14x.55 in. .47 lbs.
