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Cover of Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy

1968·242 pages

Horror Literary Fiction

classics generational saga

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.

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Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy

Year

1968

Pages

242

Horror Literary Fiction

Tags

classics generational saga

Description

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.

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