Set in rural Tennessee between the world wars, The Orchard Keeper is the unique, darkly biblical debut novel from the legendary author of Blood Meridian and The Road, Cormac McCarthy. 'McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style' - New York Times John Wesley Rattner is a young boy when his father is murdered. Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, strangled him to death. By chance, John and Marion will meet. They will not recognize each other; John will not know what this man has done. An experimental debut following in ...
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Set in rural Tennessee between the world wars, The Orchard Keeper is the unique, darkly biblical debut novel from the legendary author of Blood Meridian and The Road, Cormac McCarthy. 'McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style' - New York Times John Wesley Rattner is a young boy when his father is murdered. Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, strangled him to death. By chance, John and Marion will meet. They will not recognize each other; John will not know what this man has done. 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. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature. 'A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life' - Harper's Praise for Cormac McCarthy: 'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute' - Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[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 Brokeback Mountain
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Add this copy of The Orchard Keeper to cart. $2.95, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Vintage.
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Frankly, I have read a mass amount of books in my lifetime.
I am 54 almost 55 : so I have been around long enough to give you
my opinion on this writer!
There were many times in reading this novel that whole passages
did not make any sense to me. Also, he writes at times like somehow
he thinks everyone is going to understand is words: WRONG ANSWER!!!
So, when I look at reviews saying how great they think he is as a writer
I think to myself: Uh, what the heck are you all talking about? I think Joe R. Lansdale writes better than this guy!
This is the only book I plan on reading of his...received $1.50 at a local used bookstore in my area of Syracuse NY called "Books End"...I don't even think it was worth that much and I paid more than that for it?
Either there's a whole lot of smart folks in America (I have an IQ of 130) or I just ain't smart enough to grasp some of these words?!
