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<p><b>Set in rural Tennessee between the world wars, <i>The Orchard Keeper</i> is the unique, darkly biblical debut...
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<p><b>Set in rural Tennessee between the world wars, <i>The Orchard Keeper</i> is the unique, darkly biblical debut novel from the legendary author of <i>Blood Meridian</i> and <i>The Road</i>, Cormac McCarthy.</b><br><br><b>'McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style' – <i>New York Times</i></b><br><br>John Wesley Rattner is a young boy when his father is murdered.
Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, strangled him to death.<br><br>By chance, John and Marion will meet. They will not recognize each other; John will not know what this man has done.<br><br>An experimental debut following in the footsteps of William Faulkner, this is a magnificent conjuring of an American landscape – and a devastating portrayal of innocence lost.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.</b><br><br><b>'A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life' – <i>Harper’s</i></b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and<i> The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p>
Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger, strangled him to death.<br><br>By chance, John and Marion will meet. They will not recognize each other; John will not know what this man has done.<br><br>An experimental debut following in the footsteps of William Faulkner, this is a magnificent conjuring of an American landscape – and a devastating portrayal of innocence lost.<br><br><b>Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.</b><br><br><b>'A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life' – <i>Harper’s</i></b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of <i>The Green Road </i>and<i> The Wren, The Wren</i><br><br>'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of <i>The Shining</i> and the Dark Tower series<br><br>'[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of <i>Brokeback Mountain</i></p>
| Format | Häftad |
| Omfång | 272 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Pan Macmillan |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2024-07-11 |
| ISBN | 9781035039067 |
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- Häftad, 272, Engelska, Pan Macmillan, 2024-07-11, 9781035039067
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- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 272
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag Pan Macmillan
- Utgivningsdatum 2024-07-11
- ISBN 9781035039067