{"product_id":"outer-dark-cormac-mccarthy-paperback","title":"Outer Dark -- Cormac McCarthy, Paperback","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eA\u003c\/b\u003e novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cormac McCarthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.08h x 5.14w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679728733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/17\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCormac 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. \u003cb\u003eThe Orchard Keeper\u003c\/b\u003e (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by \u003cb\u003eOuter Dark\u003c\/b\u003e (1968), \u003cb\u003eChild of God\u003c\/b\u003e (1973), \u003cb\u003eSuttree\u003c\/b\u003e (1979), \u003cb\u003eBlood Meridian\u003c\/b\u003e (1985), \u003cb\u003eAll the Pretty Horses\u003c\/b\u003e, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992, and \u003cb\u003eThe Crossing\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cormac McCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49594620707044,"sku":"9780679728733","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780679728733.jpg?v=1786089203","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/outer-dark-cormac-mccarthy-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}