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Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

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Book name: Outer Dark (2024)
Category: Fiction
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Pages: 256 pages
ISBN13: 0330314920
ISBN: 0330314920
Language: English
Publication data: Aug. 3, 2007, 7 a.m.
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy. The brother 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. Brother and sister wander through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution.

About the author

Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

14 books

Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist and playwright. He wrote twelve novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and also wrote plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His earlier Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 1925 an… Read more