false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg 40471 11 <b> Outer Dark</b> 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 through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution. 791775 1968 Outer Dark total:1372|5:335|4:615|3:333|2:77|1:12| 1372 5300 2010 173 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 5 8 false Wed Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 17:32:40 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 07:00:35 -0700 2008
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 ...more...]]> 395143 0679728732 9780679728733 225 40 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415260m/395143.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395143.Outer_Dark 4 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 15 18:25:05 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 18:47:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 4 2 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 12:16:24 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 12:59:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 395143 0679728732 9780679728733 225 40 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415260m/395143.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395143.Outer_Dark 5 2 false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 07:44:46 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 03 22:45:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 3 1 false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 18:25:23 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 23:23:13 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 4 1 false Sun May 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 14:10:59 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 10:27:55 -0700 2008
Outer Dark is McCarthy's second novel. His early work, before Blood Meridian, was set in Tennessee--the state he grew up in. T...more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 4 1 false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 11:49:52 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 12:06:23 -0700 2009 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 tro...more...]]> 395143 0679728732 9780679728733 225 40 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415260m/395143.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395143.Outer_Dark 4 1 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon May 28 18:52:07 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 19:06:56 -0700 2007
O...more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 3 1 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Nov 29 10:56:09 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 08:24:39 -0800 2007 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, ...more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 5 1 false Sun Jan 06 17:06:53 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 17:14:48 -0800 2008 more...]]> 395143 0679728732 9780679728733 225 40 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415260m/395143.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395143.Outer_Dark 3 1 false Thu May 08 08:27:27 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 15:45:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 5 0 false Mon Oct 19 09:33:56 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 09:34:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 395143 0679728732 9780679728733 225 40 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415260m/395143.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395143.Outer_Dark 4 6 true Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 22:18:35 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 22:20:14 -0700 2009 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 ...more...]]> 395143 0679728732 9780679728733 225 40 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174415260m/395143.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/395143.Outer_Dark 4 0 false Thu Dec 11 17:22:33 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 17:30:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 5 0 false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 19:35:40 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 20:31:22 -0700 2009 Outer Dark is the McCarthy book that, for me, bears the most blatant marks of the Faulkner influence. Reading it felt like a twisted journey into an alternative dimension of Light in August, but instead of chasing a no-good boyfriend, Rinthy chases her child. The three interspersed dark strangers co...more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 4 0 false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 09:55:50 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 10:19:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 5 0 false Thu Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 15:56:46 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 16:38:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 5 0 false Sat Dec 06 10:48:16 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 04:50:40 -0800 2008
The dark fairytale world of McCarthy's Appalachia captivated my imagination the first (and every other time) I read this book. My books are far from ...more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 3 0 false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 09:06:23 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 13:03:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 1144 132 3.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 0 0 false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:26:52 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 09:33:59 -0700 2009
Yeah, not as good as All the Pretty Horses. I suspect the fact that it was almost never clear how far or how long these peop...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=40471