Description
| Product ID: | 9780330511254 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Orchard Keeper |
| Authors: | Author: Cormac McCarthy |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A young boy meets and an outlaw who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. This is Cormac McCarthy's experimental, incredible debut novel. <p><b>Set in rural Tennessee between the world wars, <i>The Orchard Keeper</i> is the unique, darkly biblical debut novel from the legendary author of <i>Blood Meridian</i> and <i>The Road</i>, Cormac McCarthy.</b><br><br><b>'McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style' – <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>John Wesley Rattner is a young boy when his father is murdered. Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, strangled him to death.<br><br>By chance, John and Marion will meet. They will not recognise each other; John will not know what this man has done.<br><br>An experimental debut following in the footsteps of William Faulkner, this is a magnificent conjuring of an American landscape – and a devastating portrayal of innocence lost.<br><br><b>'A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life' – <i>Harper’s</i></b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and<i> The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-01-01 |
