By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic and starkly evocative, set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. 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. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution. `McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters . . . In his hands, everything is done with consummate skill' Village Voice `McCarthy has made the fabulous real, the ordinary mysterious' New York Times `A profound parable that ultimately speaks to any society in any time' Time
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Descrizione del libro:
A grand fable of love and loss from one of America’s finest and most celebrated authors
L'autore:
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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- EditorePicador
- Data di pubblicazione2007
- ISBN 10 0330314920
- ISBN 13 9780330314923
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine256
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