The Orchard Keeper.
by McCarthy, Cormac
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- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
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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
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3116337
- Title
- The Orchard Keeper.
- Author
- McCarthy, Cormac
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
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