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- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Narrator
- Ed Sala
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 5 April 2013
- Run Time
- 7 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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 a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.
“He is nothing less than our greatest living writer.”—Houston Chronicle
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Details
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Narrator
- Ed Sala
- Duration
- 7 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 5 April 2013
- ISBN
- 9781470366353
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
From 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 a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution.“He is nothing less than our greatest living writer.”—Houston Chronicle
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