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Outer Dark

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Outer Dark is a novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.A 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 throug...more

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Published June 29th 1993 by Vintage (first published 1968)

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Jul 17, 2011 Chris rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was my second Cormac McCarthy read, having initiated myself years ago with his more Faulkneresque rookie effort, The Orchard Keeper. I really enjoyed this one—grim, brooding, spectral atmosphere, replete with three harrowing strangers, seeping violence, who dog the steps of the fraternal half of our brother-sister protagonists. The book begins with sin, and this particular stain won't wash out, regardless of how far the brother, Culla, journeys through unnamed Appalachia in an attempt to sc...more

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Jan 24, 2013 Craig rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

I'm not a fan of nonsense lyrical language nor am I a fan of incest cannibalist nihilism or lack of punctuation so this book is probably not the book for me.

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Jun 12, 2008 Tom Troutman rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dear Mr McCarthy,

I write this as a formal apology. I feel a culpable shame to have only recently become cognizant of your mind stimuli prose infused writings. My discomfiture is only furthered by the thought that I almost dismissed my first purchase of your writings in the form of The Road due to the fact there was a sneering Oprah Book Club decal smacked on the hardcover. If the recommendation for the read had not come from such an infallible source Im afraid I would still be in ignorance of...more

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Dec 08, 2011 Jeremy added it

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This, much more so than the Orchard Keeper, feels like McCarthy's first full work. The narrative focus is much tighter, even if the journeys that Culla and Rinthy take are every bit as shiftless and as doomed. But by the end of the book, Mccarthy has stepped well beyond the typical southern Gothic territory he spends most of his first novel treading through. Outer Dark, with it's central incestuous conflict, could easily have been just another novel about screwed-up Appalachian degenerates. Inst...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Marco Tamborrino rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sono tempi duri.
È la gente che rende duri i tempi. Ho visto tanta cattiveria fra gli uomini che non so perché Dio non ha ancora spento il sole e non se n'è andato.

Avendo letto prima altri romanzi di McCarthy, posso dire che - secondo me - questo è il meno riuscito. Lo scrittore deve ancora raggiungere la piena maturazione letteraria e sviluppare a pieno i suoi temi. Scrive sempre benissimo, non scade mai nel raccontato ma mostra tutto, la natura emana un potere proprio e la violenza è insita ne...more

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Jan 17, 2008 Jim rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: american-lit

Another harrowing slice of americana from McCarthy. Outer Dark is a disturbing story of a brother and sister with a terrible secret that tears apart their relationship and casts them both on separate journies through the angry lands of the rural south. The setting is gritty and hard -- a land where a person can't tell a preacher from a judge from a murderer --where the heat, swamps, and forgotten towns suck the souls from the characters. Misunderstood and often caught in situations beyond their...more

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Oct 05, 2007 Jes rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Not his greatest book, but still a good read. McCarthy describes setting in such vivid original terms that he could write a book about nothing and have my attention the whole way through. This book is allegory (I think), and I'm not quite sure yet what it's getting at. As usual, he writes the dialogue as if he'd spoken in the strange southern dialect all his life. McCarthy is extremely good at pulling off authenticity. I might read it again... but the "to read" pile is growing daily.

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Jan 03, 2009 Matthew rated it 5 of 5 stars

All of the other reviews are too slavering, too worshipful, too fucking nerdy and self-referential to suggest that their authors actually read this book. I read about 15 of them, and not once did I see a comment, suggestion, reflection that added anything to my understanding of the text. Spare me the book reports. If you don't have anything to say, find a forum in which your lack of authority is expected: I suggest the rest of your life. Funny that I didn't see a single mention of its place in t...more

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Jan 26, 2009 Amber rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I enjoyed the book but it didn't "WOW" me. It didn't throw me into the world or give me any emotional turmoil over the characters. Overall it is nicely written but nothing special. The mystery wasn't very suspenseful. I felt disconnected from the characters. When an emotional event occurred, I didn't feel the appropriate pang of sadness or the ping of joy. The writing is done well and the descriptions are done beautifully but the story is lacking a connectivity that brings you close to the chara...more

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Dec 14, 2010 Paola rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: narrativa

Mi accosto sempre con un certo timore alle opere di CMC. Mi fanno paura. Perché lui de-scrive una non-umanità, il lato ombra, il nero di una fotografia.
Mentre i sentimenti, le emozioni le risveglia e le lascia tutte a te lettore. La pena, la pietas, l'amore, l'ansia, l'angoscia, la paura, il terrore che i protagonisti nemmeno sanno che cosa siano, perché sono impegnati a sopravvivere.
In questo romanzo una natura immensa e rigogliosa é spettatrice delle tristi, sordide, turpi, violente e meschin...more

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May 06, 2008 John Leach rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Of the books I've read by McCarthy, this had the most Southern Gothic feel to it. I could definitely see the influence by Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner.

Outer Dark is McCarthy's second novel. His early work, before Blood Meridian, was set in Tennessee--the state he grew up in. The setting here is the Appalachian mountains during the late 19th century.

A sister and brother undertake seperate surreal journeys from inner darkness to outer. She searches for her child, born of incest with he...more

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Apr 24, 2009 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A brother and sister have a baby and the man abandons it in the woods,they find out it was saved and begin a search for it.
It sounds simple but as ever in the strange world of mccarthy it soon gets very dark. with a mother desperate to find the boy and her brother getting into all sorts of trouble,it becomes a haunting masterpiece and with an ending set many years in the future it is also very emotional.

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May 28, 2007 Jen rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book turned me into a Cormac McCarthy fan. While waiting for his newest book, The Road, to come available at the library, I read this earlier work of his. It was set somewhere in Appalacia, although the setting only matters to understand the terrian and the dialect in the book.

Once again, McCarthy is a master at character development, and while he doesn't lay everything out for you in a nice, neat package at the beginning, he tells you enough about the characters to keep you turning the pa...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Arwen56 rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romanzi

Praticamente si tratta di angoscia allo stato puro. Oddio, non che La strada o Non è un paese per vecchi possano essere definiti romanzi ameni. Tuttavia, rispetto a questo, potremmo persino affermare che una sia pur piccola vena di allegria ce l’hanno. Fate un po’ voi.

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Dec 29, 2007 Ti rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This story is about a brother, his sister and her baby which is left to die in the forest. The sister goes in search of the baby and her brother heads out after her to find her and bring her back. Along the way, they meet people from all walks of life..some kind, some not so kind. Once again, Cormac McCarthy paints a grim tale of human suffering. Although this is not the kind of book you enjoy reading, I find it staying with me as The Road did. There is one scene in the book that I felt could ha...more

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Jan 06, 2008 Sp8b rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is another book set in Appalachia in the early part of the century. The plot, though, reads more like Greek mythology or something. You follow the two main characters as they make their way across a nightmare landscape and cross paths again and again with a murderous trio. I loved Mcarthy's ability to put you back in that time and his attention to detail. The plot is unsettling and very dark but, like the Orchard Keeper, doesn't have a traditional story arc. It does come to an end that kind...more

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Jun 20, 2008 John rated it 3 of 5 stars

The only issue I take with "Outer Dark" is that the trio of men remain unexplained other than that they seem to murder anyone Culla comes across, including his deformed son. I'm not sure what McCarthy is trying to convey other than setting up a universe whose people are generous with food, casual with violence, and possess a adversarial relationship with nature. It is a quick read, maybe an afternoon or two, and was perfect to read out on the porch. Enjoyable but a little lacking on resolution....more

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Jun 07, 2012 Jordi Via rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Una pesadilla, el limbo, el juicio... Un rompecabezas

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Jan 04, 2012 Carrie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, gothic, appalachia, appalachian, mystery

I really enjoyed reading this. The story was very sparse, and of course, as with all Cormac McCarthy novels, prepare to be depressed. There ain't a one person who is nice to another in all the world, it seems, and this story is no different. He nailed the Appalachian dialect. Reading the dialogue was a real treat, and not cumbersome in the least.[return][return]The story was spare and Gothic, but I'm not sure what I mean by that. Other reviews have said it's a classic Western set in the Appalach...more

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Jul 04, 2011 Sam L rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Stylistically, McCarthy is probably one of my favorite English-language writers. Though obscure at times, his prose carries a biblical authority and bears a sense of the mythological that I find American literature otherwise lacks.

That said, the rotted support beam of McCarthy's writing is usually his content. I read Blood Meridian, and I read No Country for Old Men- I've read a lot of McCarthy staples in general. While beautifully written, and intelligently told, much of his work fails simpl...more

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Oct 19, 2009 David rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I’m glad there are still these early Cormac McCarthy’s I have still to get to. He’s never been the sort of writer that I want to chain-read. McCarthy’s second novel is pure Southern Gothic horror. Culla gets his sister Rinthy with child, hides her away in their backcountry Appalachian cabin until the babe is born in a welter of pain and blood, and then runs off stumbling and desperate through the night with the infant through the swamps and hollers to leave it out in the woods for some predator...more

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Jul 09, 2009 Matt rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I’ve been struggling with this review for over three weeks. ‘Outer Dark’ is probably my favorite Cormac McCarthy book to date and also the most aptly titled. There should be vouchers for free therapy printed on the inside cover. The thing that attracts me to McCarthy’s work is that he utilizes such beautiful prose in tales that outline the nature of human ugliness. Here are two of my favorite passages:

“She shook him awake from dark to dark, delivered out of the clamorous rabble under a black sun...more

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May 13, 2013 Luke rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Astonishing. McCarthy's first, The Orchard Keeper, was very good, but it didn't crush me like his latter novels. Apparently his first book is the only one that fails to reach the highest levels of literary achievement; his second, Outer Dark, is a work of monstrous power. I began my mission to read all of his novels in the order they were written a few weeks ago, and I have not only seen McCarthy's skill go from impressive to staggering in only two books, but I have seen the seeds of his great w...more

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Feb 20, 2011 Chloe rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, not-owned, the_south_will_rise_again, families_suck

It's been said that for writer's first novels, it is inevitable that they wear their influences on their sleeves. This is certainly the case with Cormac McCarthy's second novel, Outer Dark. Steeped in the tradition of Southern Gothic writing, this story of wandering siblings perpetually on the wrong side of luck and fortune reads like a Faulknerian nightmare.

Rinthy Holme has no sooner given birth to her first child than its father, her brother Culla, hoping to rid himself of the incestuous offsp...more It's been said that for writer's first novels, it is inevitable that they wear their influences on their sleeves. This is certainly the case with Cormac McCarthy's second novel, Outer Dark. Steeped in the tradition of Southern Gothic writing, this story of wandering siblings perpetually on the wrong side of luck and fortune reads like a Faulknerian nightmare.

Rinthy Holme has no sooner given birth to her first child than its father, her brother Culla, hoping to rid himself of the incestuous offspring steals it away and leaves it to the fates and the elements to dispose of. Fate has other plans for the babe, though, and a traveling tinker soon finds the child and cares for it. Not believing Culla's protestations that the infant is long dead and suffering from an overproduction of milk, Rinthy heads off down the road to track down her child. Feeling somewhat responsible (as well he should), Culla soon follows after, searching alternately for his missing sister and the child that seems to have cursed his very existence.

From town to town throughout the South these siblings wander, Rinthy meeting the good people of the land and benefiting from the charitable nature that lies within most while Culla is plunged from one doomed misadventure to another in a descent toward madness that makes one wonder whether his long odyssey is some act of Old Testament vengeance a la Job. Throughout the tale he is run out of town, suspected of murder, trapped on an out of control boat with a frenzied horse, nearly plunged over the side of a cliff during a stampede, until finally coming face to face with evil incarnate in the form of three murderers who have been dogging his footsteps through every town and hamlet, leaving behind the bodies of those who dare to show friendship or kindness to this damned soul.

This is an old school morality tale of the sort that I had long thought extinguished from contemporary fiction. There is none of the moral relativism or justification for a person's actions that is a hallmark of postmodern thought, but rather absolute morality of a sort that calls to mind a darker and harder age- if not the Old Testament then further back to the first tragedies of the Greeks. The writing isn't McCarthy's greatest, large swaths of the book read like minor rewrites of Faulkner's A Light In August, but there are all the ingredients I've come to expect from McCarthy- violence, hopelessness, a sense of loss at the changing of one epoch to another, and a yielding to the vicissitudes of fate. I don't think it stacks up to his more well-known works, but is an exceedingly entertaining early effort from an author that I am swiftly coming to regard as one of the most important thinkers still putting pen to page.(less)

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Apr 30, 2013 Gil D. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"E' la gente dura che rende duri i tempi. Ho vista tanta cattiveria fra gli uomini che non so perchè Dio non ha ancora spento il sole e non se n'è andato."
Il tema è ancora e sempre la desolazione più cieca, nel mondo e negli uomini. E la disperata, irragionevole ostinazione del vivere. Nonostante, appunto, il buio fuori.
Avevo letto La Strada e qualcosa, nonostante la qualità, mi aveva infastidito. Qui meno "effetti speciali", un'eleganza più austera ed un ciglio più asciutto. Uno stile che è co...more

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Apr 19, 2013 Mike rated it 3 of 5 stars

Outer Dark is not about nothingness. It's not just a wailing cry of hopelessness for the human race. It's about how darkness seems to manifest itself so easily in an inscrutable world, but goodness manages to manifest itself - also inscrutably - in the internal world. Yes, we do not have the motives of these three senseless men. But even our main character - without really being told verbatim that the meat he may be eating is human meat - feels an intense distaste of keeping it down. The mother...more Outer Dark is not about nothingness. It's not just a wailing cry of hopelessness for the human race. It's about how darkness seems to manifest itself so easily in an inscrutable world, but goodness manages to manifest itself - also inscrutably - in the internal world. Yes, we do not have the motives of these three senseless men. But even our main character - without really being told verbatim that the meat he may be eating is human meat - feels an intense distaste of keeping it down. The mother still produces milk without any real certainty that her son is still alive. There are these strange, physiological demonstrations of morality and faith that manifest themselves in the inner functions of the body that starkly contradict the bleakness of their surroundings. There is inner light to these people despite the seeming heinousness of their landscapes. And this heinousness stands in contrast. It is "outer dark," as it were.

In their odyssey they see situational bleakness, total impoverishment, and the hospitality of strangers, eccentrics, weirdos and people who have suffered greatly. Yet the travels of our two characters who look to reconnect, to perhaps redeem themselves, and bury their past...while they meet scary people with scary lives, are always asked if they want to stay. They may be stoically told whether or not work is available, but a glass of water is provided. It is a lonely, void-like place, yet under what seems like such a suffocating external climate there is some deep inner mechanism among these characters that keeps them searching. Despite the ambiguity, despite the horror, they trudge forward into the nothingness, into the unpredictability, and why? Because they know when the meat is wrong. They know - intuitively - that the baby is still alive. It's a blindness to the future that the blind man at the end says he can use and move forward with just fine. When the unknown is decreed to you, it can be reworked away from being considered a tragedy.

This is not a book about nothingness. It is a book about that impossible-to-define something. It has that little, faint glimmer of hope in the background in the back of all that despair. But it's still embryonic, and the thesis statement he later stated perfectly is not fully formed. He is still reaching toward base-level shock and capriciously poking at the obviously despairing. In McCarthy's later work, the balance is better. The protagonists are granted a little more humanity, a little more space to speak, a little more space to say "You're all I've got" to a little brother. Here, the only thing really saving it from being a Sensation Novel in the Southern Gothic tradition - from being too over-the-top, or too rudimentary in its "everything sucks" development - are those glimmers of his masterful prose. It's sort of the Scenes of Clerical Life in McCarthy's development: all those small reflections of potential are there, and, yes, it gets better.(less)

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Mar 28, 2012 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Not for the squeamish

Shelves: appalachia-southern-literature, southern-gothic, incest, judgment, responsibility, children, murder, cormac-mccarthy

Outer Dark: Cormac McCarthy's Novel of Judgment and Responsibility

And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 25:30, KJV

If there were ever a more unprofitable servant to appear in literature, it would be difficult to find one less so than Culla Holme. Brother to Rinthy, he has perpetrated the social taboo of incest. He fears his sin will be found out. When Rinthy's water breaks, he allows her to suffer through labor, refusing to even summon a midwife. She bears a son, whom Culla never allows her to hold or nurse. Rather, he abandons his child in the woods and tells his sister the child has died.

A travelling tinker finds the child and saves it. To hide his abandonment of the child, Culla prepares a grave, a deception Rinthy sees through, digging up the grave herself to find that no body is there.

Culla leaves their home and seeks work from town to town. Rinthy also leaves home to find her child, her "Chap," as she calls him.

Each of Culla's efforts to find work and become a profitable servant fail. He is pursued by three violent men, perhaps symbols of an angry God, who leave a path of death and destruction in their wake. I wondered that there were not four horsemen. But I remembered that McCarthy was the fourth, driving each of the three on and on. The targets of their violence are those with whom Culla has come into contact.

The simple honesty of Rinthy brings her into contact with individuals of a kinder and gentler nature than those with whom Culla deals and deceives. That Culla ultimately is confronted by the vengeful trio is inevitable. I leave the outcome of Culla's judgment to the readerm just as must also leave the outcome of Rinthy's search for her Chap.

McCarthy's second novel descends into darkness of a degree much greater than seen in his debut novel, The Orchard Keeper. "Outer Dark" is a work intentionally marked with the grim, grotesque, and gothic. With this novel, the reader sees McCarthy's escalating violence that is vivid in its ability to shock and appall.

This is a tale that might have been ripped from the pages of the Brothers Grimm and ramped up to a degree that is sufficiently shocking for a society that has become more jaded and unable to wince at the vilest acts of men. It will not easily be forgotten, once read. Nor is it a tale one will easily pick up again.(less)

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Jun 06, 2010 Ivy Kleinbart rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If you've read McCarthy's The Road, this book is its cousin in many ways, but I liked it more. The writing consists of a luscious poetics that is virtuosic enough to endure provocative narrative elisions and ghastly scenes of social and domestic violence. The characterizations in this book build from flat pockets of dialogue and a heightened attention to the main characters' most basic and desperate machinations, which are often circular and repetitious; we never get a sense of their inner lives...more

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Apr 30, 2013 Mark Sacha added it · review of another edition

McCarthy's second novel seems like a prototype for his entire body of work to follow, fully developed from the comparatively unperfected language of The Orchard Keeper, just three years earlier. As someone with a borderline reverence for his fiction, I will be the first to admit that it is thematically redundant. This could be construed as a problem for some, but I see it as self-justified. Although he is provincial in his characters and setting, the things he most frequently considers are measu...more McCarthy's second novel seems like a prototype for his entire body of work to follow, fully developed from the comparatively unperfected language of The Orchard Keeper, just three years earlier. As someone with a borderline reverence for his fiction, I will be the first to admit that it is thematically redundant. This could be construed as a problem for some, but I see it as self-justified. Although he is provincial in his characters and setting, the things he most frequently considers are measured in geologic scales of time, where other authors are concerned with ideas and events confined to years or decades or at most generations (which is not to belittle them). Things come to pass, slowly, and there are things that are a part of humanity and stand apart from it. There is a reason beyond the aesthetic for his concentration on landscape.

The book deals with heavily disturbing material, its two protagonists being siblings and the plot being driven by the attempted infanticide of the child they had together. Although only his second, I would have to say it is one of McCarthy's best, the most haunting of his pre-Blood Meridian work and more arcane and heartfelt than much of what followed.

Outer Dark stands out from the rest of his novels for its stark unreality, giving itself entirely to the mythobiblical underpinnings exhibited elsewhere. The setting is Appalachia, but one more credibly attributed to the imagination than to the crude authenticity of his other Southern novels (The Road included). Nothing in the land is named - curious, in context, that there is explicit mention of the nameless. The character speaking this, himself nameless, is a clear predecessor of Blood Meridian's Judge Holden, a hulking and terrifying and not convincingly corporeal creature who tells one of the two main characters, "if you cain't name somethin you cain't claim it... You cain't talk about it even. You cain't say what it is." Interesting, given Holden's observations on existence and knowledge and consent.

The Holme siblings wander across the countryside in search of the child or the other, from "dark to dark", or from dream to the darker exterior opened out upon. It is McCarthy's first road novel, and one that parallels his most recent in astonishing ways. Certain descriptions are evocative or even identical to those found in The Road - the "dead gray serpentine" of a river or "a shadeless burn... a dead land where nothing moved save windy rifts of ash." One of the many grotesques encountered along the way shares a thought that, within the framework of McCarthy's mythography, seems a posteriori like a prophecy: "Hard people makes hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why God ain't put out the sun and gone away." Recall that the landscape in The Road is described as godless. In this, as in other areas, it seems that this weird and exceptional early novel constitutes an important key to interpreting all that came after.(less)

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Dec 11, 2008 Shawn rated it 4 of 5 stars

I liked Outer Dark a lot, but it's not for everyone. I was arguing with someone that you could cross out the title and write The Road (McCarthy's recent, successful book--unlike this one, I guess, which was early, copyright 1968, and I'm guessing not that successful)on it, but they disagreed. Or, it's like Oh Brother Where Art Thou, but with more biblical references, and themes, some of which I'm sure I don't understand, not being myself a bible scholar. It's dark though. I read where McCarthy w...more

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Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

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