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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. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time. "The feeling for the land and seasons is so intense as to be part of the story and there are scenes one will never forget ...A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life" - "Harper's". "A true American original" - "Newsweek".
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An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they enact a drama that seems born of the land itself. All three are heroes of an intense and compelling celebration of values lost to time and industrialization.
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Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today. McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. The Orchard Keeper (1965) won the Faulkner Award for a first novel; it was followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award for fiction in 1992, and The Crossing.
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- PublisherRandom House
- Publication date1965
- ISBN 10 0394439368
- ISBN 13 9780394439365
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages246
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Book Description Condition: Good. Very Good Minus in a Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; First Edition, Second Printing; Dust jacket has a couple small edge-tears, has a vertical crease inside the front jacket flap, and has been price-clipped, but is otherwise in nice condition (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; All three textblock sides are unblmeished, although there is fading to the green spray on the top textblock edge; Couple of tiny spot-marks to the right edge of the first endpaper and to pages 20 - 22, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked;; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 1.0 lbs; White dust jacket with title in red lettering; 1965, Random House Publishing; 246 pages; "Orchard Keeper," by Cormac McCarthy. Seller Inventory # SKU-0007AG08109223
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Light gray printed wrappers. Faint dampstain along the edge of the front wrap, and very faintly in the bottom margins of pages. Advance issue of the author's first book. Despite a strong following among literary cognoscenti, McCarthy remained obscure for years until he finally left Random House in the late 1980s and Knopf's publicity department helped propel him into the first rank of American authors with *All the Pretty Horses*. Very scarce. Seller Inventory # 397705
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