The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper

1965 • 246 pages

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Average rating3.2

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'The Orchard Keeper' tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father.

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They are gone now. Fled, banished in death or exile, lost, undone. Over the land sun and wind still move to burn and sway the trees, the grasses. No avatar, no scion, no vestige of that people remains. On the lips of the strange race that now dwells there their names are myth, legend, dust.

February 14, 2023

Good McCarthy, but certainly not as strong as other McCarthy novels, and I found myself getting a little bored in places.

May 7, 2023