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  • Cormac McCarthy

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8 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Fiction
  • Brothers and sisters
  • Abandoned children
  • Incest
  • Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
  • Brothers and sisters, fiction
  • Fiction, family life
  • Tennessee, fiction
  • American fiction (fictional works by one author)
  • Fiction, family life, general
  • Fiction, sagas
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About the author

  • Cormac McCarthy

    20 July 1933 - 13 June 2023

    3.91

    257 ratings · 111 works

Editions

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    Pan Macmillan

    2010

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    Seuil

    October 14, 1998

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    Plaza y Janes

    November 19, 2002

  • Edition cover

    n/a

    2011

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New Ed edition

Picador

April 8, 1994

  • Edition cover

    Ecco Press

    1984

  • Edition cover

    1st Vintage International ed.

    Vintage Books

    1993

  • Edition cover

    Random House

    1968

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    Rowohlt Tb.

    June 1, 1996

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    Deutsch

    1970

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    lst Vintage International ed.

    Vintage International

    1993