
Outer Dark
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...
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...