Outer Dark (Paperback)

Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel The Road 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. Set in Appalachia around the turn of the century, this evocative novel tells of a woman who bears her brother's child. The father hides the baby in the woods and tells his sister the baby died of natural causes. When she discovers the lie, she sets out to find her son and both parents move headlong toward an apocalyptic resolution. Out of print since 1984. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…