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The Outer Dark
RRP: £7.99 Our Price: £2.90 (subject to change) ReviewsOne of Mccarthy's most accessible novels. A stunning read. Review date: 2008-10-08 Rating: 10 out of 10 Mccarthy's language and control of pace are of the highest quality even in this, his second novel. The tale is an allegorical one of consequence, guilt and fate concerning a brother, Culla, and his sister who bears his son at the novels beginning. Culla takes the baby as his sister recovers and leaves it in a forest glade before returning, claiming it had died and been buried. In the meantime a tinker has chanced upon the boy and taken it. When Cullas lie is promptly found he disappears into the appalchian expanse in search of work while his sister tries to track down the tinker. His sister receives momentus fortune and good-will on her travels while her brother, for his sins, comes across terrible ill-fortune, being suspected of crimes and prompting a hog riot and chancing across many characters who later come to regret meeting him. All the while three savage characters are roaming the land killing and hanging men who have recently strayed across Cullas path. The prose is haunting and subtly gorgeous and the dialogue is truly brilliant. The book is open to interpretation and I wisely recommend you tackle this before his magnum opus, Blood Meridian. A classic book from, in my opinion, the greatest living American writer. A Grimm Fairy Tale..... Review date: 2008-09-19 Rating: 10 out of 10 I came upon this book having worked my way through The Border Trilogy, The Road(my first Cormac McCarthy), No Country for Old Men and latterly Child of God. Reading Outer Dark gave me the same goosebumps I experienced as a child when I discovered Grimm's Fairy Tales. That feeling of impending disaster whilst in the grip of horrible fascination which had me wincing in anticipation and ensured that I would read through to the bitter end. Cormac MCarthy's unrelenting and poetic language engages feelings of sympathy from the start when we discover poor Rinthy giving birth to her brother's child alone and deliberately neglected by him. Thus starts a circular journey of action and reaction as both brother and sister travel their own personal but interlinked journeys. Into this mix explode three loose-cannon characters who weave in and out of the tale with a malevolent presence that can only lead in one inevitable direction. The end is as explosively shocking as the beginning. Cormac MCarthy has the ability to combine sickening brutality with the most deft and delicate nuances of humanity using lean, eccentric and beautiful language. In his writing nothing is squandered, it is pitch perfect. If you like your humour dark and and your stories darker, this is the book for you. It's brilliant stuff. The best book I have read in 20 years! Review date: 2008-06-01 Rating: 10 out of 10 This is the second Cormac McCarthy book I've read, my first being "The Road", which I felt to be a pretty bleak piece, though no less rewarding for that. I enjoyed it enough to try another, and picked "Outer Dark" pretty much at random. Within the first few paragraphs, this book had me completely hooked. The story is a very simple one, employing few (if any) plot complexities to keep the reader interested. Instead, it's the rich portrayal of the protagonists, a varied and fascinating cast of supporting characters, and a darkly evocative "Southern Gothic" setting that keep you utterly transfixed and eager for more. Constant throughout is a carefully balanced sense of foreboding which underpins the story as it builds to its somewhat predictable yet devastating conclusion. This is, without a doubt, the best book I have read in the last 20 years, prompting me to order every other work by this highly talented author! If each of them is half as good as "Outer Dark", I have many hours of wonderful reading ahead! Excellent early McCarthy Review date: 2008-05-05 Rating: 10 out of 10 I came to this having read several of McCarthy's later books. It is fascinating from this point of view, showing some of the earlier themes and images that one finds recurring throughout his work. One doesn't get as close to the characters in this book as in his later work and the author almost seems to want us to keep our distance and reserve our sympathy (this isn't necessarily a shortcoming, its just how it has been written - although I expect some will find it frustrating). The language as in all his work is absolutely superb. The content is fairly chilling but an excellent read. Product Details/SpecificationsAuthors: Cormac McCarthy Recording label: Picador Manufacturer: Picador EAN: 9780330314923 Binding: Paperback Dewey decimal number: 813 ISBN: 0330314920 Number of pages: 256 Publication date: 1994-04-08 Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown) Similar Products
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