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OUTER DARK - CORMAC MCCARTHY TASCHENBUCH

A dark  nihilistic tale  Cormac McCarthy's second novel Outer Dark sees brother and sister
wander separately through a countryside scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers.  
In an unspecified place in Appalachia  sometime around the beginning of the twentieth century 
a woman named Rinthy bears her brother's child.  The brother  Culla  abandons the baby in the
woods  and tells Rinthy that he has died by natural causes. When she sees his grave empty  she
sets forth alone to find her son.  Wracked by sin  Culla too leaves for the countryside. He
will be haunted by The Trio  punishers and murderers  as the novel moves towards its eerie 
apocalyptic resolution.   Part of the Picador Collection  a series celebrating fifty years of
Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.    'A profound parable that
ultimately speaks to any society in any time' - Time   Praise for Cormac McCarthy:  'McCarthy
worked close to some religious impulse  his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright
author of The Green Road and The Wren  The Wren   'His prose takes on an almost biblical
quality  hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King  author of
The Shining and the Dark Tower series  '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich
prose  [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx 
author of Brokeback Mountain

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