Book jacket image for Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy

Vintage

9780679728733

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Outer Dark

Long before venturing southwest with Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy plumbed his native Appalachia for visceral cruelty and mythological beauty in Outer Dark.

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