Outer Dark
Culla and Rinthy Holme, a brother and sister bound by an unspoken, harrowing transgression that fractures their lives and sets them on separate, wandering paths through an unforgiving Appalachian wilderness. Rinthy is driven by a fierce, instinctual maternal ache, moving through the world with a vulnerable but resilient innocence that contrasts sharply with the grim reality around her.
Culla, by contrast, is a portrait of profound guilt, paranoia, and moral paralysis, endlessly fleeing his own conscience and the judgment of a society he cannot face. As they drift through a dreamlike expanse of deep woods and decaying settlements, they are shadowed by a trio of enigmatic, murderous marauders who embody an absolute, unreasoning malice.
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Book details
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication date
- 1993
- Print length
- 257 pages
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780679728733
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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.
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Cormac McCarthy
“The world is full of things that are not what they seem.”
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