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The Orchard Keeper

novel by McCarthy

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  • Cormac McCarthy
    In Cormac McCarthy: The Orchard Keeper

    McCarthy’s debut novel, The Orchard Keeper (1965), is about a young boy and his two mentors. The novel is marked by qualities that would be amplified in McCarthy’s later work—an unyielding realism, a poetic prose style that elevated the commonplace to a symbolic significance, and rich descriptions of…

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