Outer Dark
$21.10
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
10 December 2024
Summary
A dark, nihilistic tale, Cormac McCarthy’s second novel Outer Dark sees brother and sister wander separately through a countryside scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers.
In an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century, a woman named Rinthy bears her brother’s child. The brother, Culla, abandons the baby in the woods, and tells Rinthy that he has died by natural causes. When she sees his grave empty, she sets forth alo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035039029 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035039028 |
| Author: | Cormac McCarthy |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 10 December 2024 |
| Weight: | 182g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 132mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters … In his hands, everything is done with consummate skill. * Village Voice *
A master in perfect command of his medium * Washington Post *
A true American original. * Newsweek *
A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time. * Time *
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian, Child of God and The Passenger. Among his honours were the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road and No Country for Old Men - the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of eighty-nine.
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