Name: The Orchard Keeper
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Author: McCarthy, Cormac
ISBN: 9780679728726

Type

Physical Book

Author

Cormac McCarthy

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1993

Language

English

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.19 kg.

ISBN

0679728724

ISBN13

9780679728726

Synopsis "The Orchard Keeper "

The first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road. Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylder-together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence-enact a drama that seems born of the land itself. All three are heroes of an intense and compelling celebration of values lost to time and industrialization. Look for Cormac McCarthy's new novel, The Passenger.

Cormac McCarthy

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(Rhode Island, 1933 - 2023 New Mexico) spent much of his childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, where his first four novels are set. By 1965, he began to attract international critical attention with The Orchard Keeper, for which he won the Faulkner Award.

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road and the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses. He is considered one of the four major American novelists of his time. His dense prose is categorized within the Southern Gothic genre for its stylistic complexity and the darkness and violence it presents. His books Outer Dark, Child of God, and Suttree, have been compared to the works of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.

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