← Back to discovery

Outer dark

Cormac McCarthy

1968238 pagesabout 4–5 hours
1968
first published
  • 1968Random House · 242 pages · ENG
  • 1970Deutsch · 238 pages · ENGISBN 9780233956503
  • 1984Ecco Press · 242 pages · ENGISBN 9780880010641
  • 1993Vintage Books · 242 pages · ENGISBN 9780679728733
  • 2010Pan Macmillan · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780330511223
  • 2011n/aISBN 9781447212461
  • 1994Picador · 256 pagesISBN 9780330314923
  • Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9780099900306

A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother 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 through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution.

How it feels

How it reads

Character focusSmall ensemble

When and where

ThemesFamily

Content notesnot yet assessed

Quotesnone available

How do you feel?