The Orchard Keeper (1965) - Cormac McCarthy

Written by Cormac McCarthy
Read by Ed Sala
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

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 pre–World War II Tennessee. There, the men’s 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 McCarthy’s potential built into it. It contains the strange embryo of all of McCarthy’s future greatness: his great mythic prose, amazing archetypal characters, and beautifully grand, natural scenes. If you love McCarthy, please don’t skip the Orchard Keeper, just don’t 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 unblemished, forested mountainsides is being encroached upon by progress– Or so some would call it. McCarthy intimates it is a present fast forgetting the past.”