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26 de mar. de 2024 · 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.
Check out this great listen on Audible.ca. One of America’s most celebrated novelists, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper. Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger ...
2 de fev. de 1993 · The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylder–together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence–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.
I too have to agree. The Orchard Keeper felt like The First Novel. You see hints of the genius to come in later works. But they were yet to be honed and refined. His following two novels were more in line with the McCarthy we know, with his apocalyptic landscapes and explorations of human depravity while stilling remaining on the American south.
Plot Overview. "The Orchard Keeper" is set in rural Tennessee, where three characters—John Wesley Rattner, Marion Sylder, and a reclusive old man named Ather Peacock—find their lives inextricably linked. The novel weaves together their stories, exploring their struggles, connections to the land, and the consequences of their actions.
1 de jan. de 2010 · The Orchard Keeper was published by Random House in 1965; McCarthy's editor there was Albert Erskine, William Faulkner's long-time editor. Before publication, McCarthy received a travelling fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which he used to travel to Ireland.
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4 de jan. de 2019 · The Orchard Keeper McCarthy’s first novel, The Orchard Keeper , introduces the outcasts as members of the disappearing mountain culture of East Tennessee. Young Marion Sylder lives by bootlegging, and in self-defense he kills a man and disposes of the body in an abandoned peach orchard that symbolizes the dying culture.
