PanaX reviewed The Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Review of 'The Outer Dark' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Violent, lyrical, and macabre.
242 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1984 by Ecco Press.
Outer dark
4 stars
(6 reviews)
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 through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution.
Annette C. Boehm reviewed Outer dark by Cormac McCarthy
Review of 'Outer dark' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Dark indeed.
Subjects
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Abandoned children -- Fiction
- Incest -- Fiction
- Tennessee -- Fiction