The Orchard Keeper

Zusatztext A true American original. Informationen zum Autor Cormac McCarthy was the author of many acclaimed novels, including Blood Meridian , Child of God and The Passenger . Among his honours are the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses , The Road and No Country for Old Men – the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. McCarthy died in 2023 in Santa Fe, NM at the age of 89. Klappentext Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. 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. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time.‘There isn’t anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature’ New York Times Zusammenfassung 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.

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Mr McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style, one that fuses risky eloquence, intricate rhythms and dead-to-rights accuracy New York Times

Product details

• Authors: Cormac McCarthy
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780330511254
• ISBN: 978-0-330-51125-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Picador
• 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