The Orchard Keeper

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 recognise 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. ''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

Product details

• Authors: Cormac Mccarthy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.07.2024
• EAN: 9781035039067
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3503906-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Picador Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Psychological, Tennessee, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, FICTION / Southern, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary, Metaphysical / philosophical fiction