The Orchard Keeper (1965) - Cormac McCarthy
Category: Classic
Narrator: Ed Sala
Tags: Classic, Adults, Historical Fiction
Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc. Release date: June 14, 2013 Duration: 08:07:32, Cormac McCarthy announced his towering presence on the literary stage with his first novel, The Orchard Keeper., Within the pages of this classic work, John Wesley Rattner, his uncle Ather, and bootlegger Marion Sylder find their lives dangerously entwined in preWorld War II Tennessee. There, the mens tragedies and struggles are mirrored by the looming specter of industrialization., The great thing about reading this first McCarthy is you can see the germs of all of McCarthys potential built into it. It contains the strange embryo of all of McCarthys future greatness: his great mythic prose, amazing archetypal characters, and beautifully grand, natural scenes. If you love McCarthy, please dont skip the Orchard Keeper, just dont expect it to knock you down, and chill you to the bone, and blow you away like Blood Meridian or Suttree, McCarthy writes of a land and a people fast changing. What were once unblemi
