false 58799223 240825 40471 0330314920 9780330314923 134 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249m/40471.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202759249s/40471.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40471.Outer_Dark 3.85 1170 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 through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.]]> 4178 4.00 105253 21044 1968 4 0 false Tue Jun 09 09:02:48 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 19:04:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 09:02:48 -0700 2009