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"The Orchard Keeper" is the story of three people, an old man, a young man and a boy. Each, in his different way, is a rebel, a rugged individualist and a lone wolf. In the early 1930s the old man (he has no name until more than half the book is over) lives alone in a remote cabin, wanders over the mountains and finally, without much reason, goes on the warpath.
11 de ago. de 2010 · The Orchard Keeper. Cormac McCarthy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 11, 2010 - Fiction - 256 pages. The acclaimed first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the ...
13 de set. de 2020 · The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. After an apparently peregrine and dissolute period of his early adulthood, Cormac McCarthy sent the manuscript of his yet-untitled first novel to Random House in 1962. It happily escaped the slush pile and reached the editor Larry Bensky. According to Cormac McCarthy’s Literary ...
1 de jan. de 2010 · 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.
1 de jan. de 1993 · The Orchard Keeper: The Orchard Keeper is McCarthy’s debut novel first published in 1965. Revisiting his earliest work is like traveling back in time to engage the mind of a young genius and discover where his brilliance originated.
The Orchard Keeper is the 1965 debut novel of American author Cormac McCarthy. The story explores the relationship between a young boy and the man who killed the boy’s father; it explores themes of The Chaos of the Wilderness, Cyclical Violence, and The Encroachment of Modernity. The Orchard Keeper won a number of awards, while McCarthy’s ...
This work, "The Orchard Keeper" was McCarthy's first novel; it would receive the 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel. Initial reviews, although somewhat mixed, praised McCarthy's "flashing visual impact" and his "unusual writing furrowed by a stark, visual imagery while the story itself has a shadowed fascination" (n.b., quotes from Orville Prescott and "Kirkus ...
