By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic & starkly evocative set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brothers child a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods & tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brothers lie she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother & sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying & elusive strangers headlong toward an eerie apocalyptic resolution. Mc Carthy is a master stylist perhaps without equal in American letters.. . In his hands everything is done with consummate skill Village Voice A master in perfect command of his medium Washington Post A true American original Newsweek