The Orchard Keeper
by Cormac McCarthy
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- Hardcover
- first
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Synopsis
The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by the American novelist Cormac McCarthy. Like all McCarthy's fiction, it has been heavily influenced by William Faulkner, probably more so than any of his other works. The novel is set in a small, isolated community in Tennessee, during the inter-war period. It is the story of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, who has killed Rattner's father, a fact to which both are oblivious.The writing of William Faulkner heavily influenced this novel, and it was awarded the 1966 William Faulkner Foundation Award for notable first novel.
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- Bookseller
- Cape Collector (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7
- Title
- The Orchard Keeper
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Format/Binding
- Red Boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Pages
- 246
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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