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The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy
The Orchard Keeper
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An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists.  Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger... show more
An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists.  Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, 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.  Together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780679728726 (0679728724)
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 246
Edition language: English
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jonafras
jonafras rated it
4.0 Orchard Keeper
Not as exquisite as the later works (where his distinctive style is much more polished), but still an excellent read.
MochaMike
MochaMike rated it
Face it GoodReaders—Cormac McCarthy isn’t for everyone. I doubt it was ever his intention. He doesn’t write for the casual reader, or even the avid reader. I think he writes primarily for himself, and gets rather a kick out of those of us who follow his every word and enjoy it for what it is. Like a...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
3.0
Read By: Bruce HunteyBook Description================An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest novelists and author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller All the Pretty Horses. --------------The writing style is evident, lush wordiage to die for ...
Tobit
Tobit rated it
4.0 The Orchard Keeper
The polar opposite of the stark, desolate prose in The Road.
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