Outer Dark -- Cormac McCarthy, Paperback Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General What follows is both a

What follows is both a ticking-clock investigation into the whereabouts of a father and an emotionally rich portrait of a family whose most personal secrets just may be at the heart of his disappearance

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and noble self-sacrifice

mages cast out centuries ago in a brutal and bloody war

Outer Dark -- Cormac McCarthy, Paperback Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General What follows is both aFrom the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through