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The Orchard Keeper

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Ed Sala
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One of America’s most celebrated novelists, 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.

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Cormac McCarthy creates a world, paints vivid pictures with his words that stay with you for a long time. The Imagery he conjures up is hauntingly inspiring and leads to unexpected discoveries within the text as the reader percolates on it long after reading it. Considering this is Cormac McCarthy's first book, this bodes very well for all the subsequent books that followed it.! Brilliant!

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