The Orchard Keeper (häftad, eng)

<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' &ndash; <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 &ndash; 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' &ndash; <i>Harper&rsquo;s</i></b><br><br>Praise for Cormac McCarthy:<br><br>&lsquo;McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute&rsquo; &ndash; 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' &ndash; 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' &ndash; 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