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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780679728733 ISBN: 0679728732 Label: Vintage Manufacturer: Vintage Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: June 29, 1993 Publisher: Vintage Release Date: June 29, 1993 Studio: Vintage Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Outer Dark reads like William Faulkner.Better known for his later novels The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, the Crossing, Cities of the Plain, Blood Meridian, and No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy's second novel, Outer Dark (1968), is set in Appalachia around the turn of the twentieth century. As the title suggests, dark tones permeate the novel, along with Biblical imagery. The novel reads like William Faulkner. It is gothic, apocalyptic, poetic, and full of mystery. It tells the story of a woman, Rinthy, who gives birth ... Read More Rating:  - Inner Dark, As WellCormac McCarthy grabbed me with both THE ROAD and NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, and so I decided to explore some of his earlier works. The first thing one notices upon doing so is that McCarthy's own writing style has changed dramatically. Whereas the more recent novels use sparse writing to evoke powerful emotions, his past works are far more verbose, with run on sentences filled with all the adjectives one could imagine. In my opinion, I prefer the sparse writing instead. But the earlier ... Read More Rating: - outer dark and inner dark, evil remains the sameMcCarthy's novels are certainly not for everyone, for they are dark pessimistic interpretations of the human condition, often showing mankind at our worst. Outer Dark is exceptionally well written. The journeys of a sister and brother has many characteristics of dark folk tales and Greek drama on cosmological justice, or the lack there of. The tale evokes Greek Tragedy and Old Testiment Judgements. The story is mythlike and makes reference to concepts around Original Sin and Redemption. Because ... Read More Rating: - I Loved It But Not Sure WhyI thoroughly enjoyed this book (if "enjoyed" is the right word) but I have no idea what it's about. Like all the other McCarthy books I've read, it is compelling from word one. No one today shapes the English language like McCarthy. His every word is poetry. His ear for dialog and dialect is staggering. His description of everything, I mean EVERYTHING, is unerring, uncannily so. His ability to set a (mostly) dark and somber mood is (literally) scary. But I don't know what the book was about. I guess it ... Read More Rating: - goodI found Outer Dark to be the kind of novel that Faulkner would have written if he had been from Appalachia. Rife with symbolism and biblical allegory, Outer Dark takes the reader on a brother's journey to find his sister while also taking the sister on a journey in search of her baby that the brother has given away. The journey meanders past a slew of interesting characters on its way to its final outcome. The biggest problem that I had with this one was that it felt too much like McCarthy was trying ... Read More |
