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 ndash New York TimesJohn 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 ndash 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 ndash HarperrsquosPraise for Cormac McCarthylsquoMcCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolutersquo ndash Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The WrenHis prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power ndash 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 ndash Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Binding: Paperback;272 pages; Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL; Classification: FA; Weight: 314 g; Dimensions: 200 x 130 x 16

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