Outer Dark
by McCarthy, Cormac
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectable - Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0233956506
- ISBN 13
- 9780233956503
- Seller
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Synopsis
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee, where his first novels are set. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968) McCarthy's scarce second novel. Outer Dark was published by Random House in 1968. The story involves Rinthy Holme, who bears her brother's child. Her brother, Culla, then takes the baby out to the woods to die, telling his sister the child died of natural causes. She spends the novel looking for the child while her brother tries to outrun his sin. Although published to great critical reviews, it sold poorly - a modest 2,705 copies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- 84 Charing Cross Road Books, IOBA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 083563
- Title
- Outer Dark
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectable - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0233956506
- ISBN 13
- 9780233956503
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- BZDB14 BIBLIO-LIVE-1 Fiction; Fiction. Outer Dark McCarthy Cormac
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