The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper

by Cormac Mc Carthy (Author)

Synopsis

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time. 'The feeling for the land and seasons is so intense as to be part of the story and there are scenes one will never forget ...A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life' Harper's 'A true American original' Newsweek

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Picador
Published: 01 Jan 2010

ISBN 10: 0330511254
ISBN 13: 9780330511254
Book Overview: 'There isn't anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature' New York Times

Author Bio
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.