Outer Dark

novel by McCarthy

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  • Cormac McCarthy
    In Cormac McCarthy: A wandering writer’s life

    …returning to Tennessee in 1967: Outer Dark (1968), is a story about two incestuous siblings. Social outcasts were also the focus of his two subsequent novels, Child of God (1974), about a lonely man’s descent into depravity, and Suttree (1979), about a man who ekes out a living from a…

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