The Orchard Keeper (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Cormac McCarthy
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Tennessee, Outlaws, Orchards, Trapping
- Locales: Tennessee
Upon the publication of The Orchard Keeper, granted the William Faulkner Foundation Award for the best first novel by an American writer, McCarthy's promising literary talents were recognized. The young writer was singled out as a force to be watched and to be reckoned with.
Like a number of McCarthy's early novels, The Orchard Keeper is set in eastern Tennessee. Its topography is related intimately in stunning prose, creating a remarkable, richly textured linguistic surface to the novel. Setting, for McCarthy, is of paramount importance. In fact, geographic...
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