Outer DarkAuthor Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cormac Publisher: Vintage Date: 6 29 1993 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.