The Orchard Keeper
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4.4 • 10 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The acclaimed first novel from one of America’s most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy’s father.
The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylder—together with Rattner’s Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence—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.
“McCarthy has a voice that is unmistakably his own … with a passion most writers couldn’t muster or wouldn’t dare.”—The Boston Globe
Customer Reviews
Great book, confusing audiobook
So I have the book and I listened to the audiobook. This is a hard book to narrate. I think the narrator does a really good job, but McCarthy likes to jump around a lot from character to character which can be hard to follow. Also, a lot of times the there will be flashbacks that are italicized in the book , but there’s no clear change in narration or even tone at these points in the audiobook. It almost needs multiple narrators to do it justice. Fans of McCarthy will get what I’m saying , still a great book, but better read than listened to.