Outer Dark
by Cormac McCarthy
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- Seller
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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About This Item
First Edition. VG with a clean and firm page block. Previous owner's address on ffep but otherwise unmarked. DJ is unclipped but worn at edges with a few tears and dings around the spine. Mylar protected.
Synopsis
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee, where his first novels are set. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968) McCarthy's scarce second novel. Outer Dark was published by Random House in 1968. The story involves Rinthy Holme, who bears her brother's child. Her brother, Culla, then takes the baby out to the woods to die, telling his sister the child died of natural causes. She spends the novel looking for the child while her brother tries to outrun his sin. Although published to great critical reviews, it sold poorly - a modest 2,705 copies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BooksCurious (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11
- Title
- Outer Dark
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature; Pulitzer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cormac McCarthy;
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...