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The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by the American novelist Cormac McCarthy. It won the 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel.
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The Orchard Keeper. Cormac McCarthy. 3.54. 11,183 ratings1,024 reviews. 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.
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Feb 2, 1993 · In many respects the America McCarthy reveals in The Orchard Keeper is one our politicians and rich folks like to pretend never existed, that back-woods land of poor country people living hard-scrabble lives in the hills that many of our folks grew up in at the end of The Great Depression.
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Learn about the plot, characters, and themes of Cormac McCarthy's first novel, set in eastern Tennessee in the 1930s and 1940s. The novel explores the conflict between nature, law, and human values through the lives of a bootlegger, a boy, and an orchard keeper.
A young boy seeks revenge for his father's murder by a bootlegger, but instead forms a friendship with him. The novel explores themes of violence, wilderness, and modernity in rural Tennessee.
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.
Aug 11, 2010 · The Orchard Keeper. 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...
