- Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Abandoned children, Incest
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother 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 through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution.
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About the book
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 242
- Publisher
- Picador, Rowohlt Tb., n/a
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English, Spanish, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780330474801
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Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western and postapocalyptic genres. He is known for his graphic depictions of violence and his unique writing style, recognizable by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution. McCarthy is widely regarded as one of the greatest contemporary American writers.
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