false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664081m/463382.jpg 46506 10 Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, "The Orchard Keeper" is an early classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. It 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. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time. 2824602 1965 The Orchard Keeper total:823|5:145|4:289|3:295|2:71|1:23| 823 2931 1281 83 463382 0679728724 9780679728726 133 22 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664081m/463382.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463382.The_Orchard_Keeper 4 4 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 23:19:14 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 19:40:05 -0700 2007 Faulkner-esque, your work derivative of Faulkner, your themes and language descended from a rich Faulknerian li...more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 3 3 false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 27 19:22:51 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 20:57:14 -0800 2007 recently summarized two Uncle Tupelo songs as condensed Cormac McCarthy novels. This novel is more like an expanded Silver Jews track ("Smith and Jones Forever," I'm looking in your direction).

There are a lot of descriptions of body odor in this book. Most everyone so far se...more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 2 4 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Feb 18 18:49:40 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 18:57:52 -0800 2008 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 4 1 false Fri Feb 13 20:48:56 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 20:01:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 46507 084466751X 9780844667515 4 1 3.56 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46507.The_Orchard_Keeper 3 1 false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 15:07:37 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 15:19:22 -0700 2007 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 5 1 false Thu Jun 28 14:39:42 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 14:47:44 -0700 2007 The Road. The wooded hollers and bottoms landscape is really a major cha...more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 1 0 false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 15:13:35 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 17:21:36 -0800 2009
If this book had been written differently, or even by a different author, it would have been monumentally better.

Prepare yourself with a dictionary and a thesaurus hoping that either one of them will have a wo...more...]]> 463382 0679728724 9780679728726 133 22 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664081m/463382.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463382.The_Orchard_Keeper 3 1 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 17 11:00:19 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 25 22:58:43 -0800 2007 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 4 0 false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 10:35:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 14:33:30 -0700 2009
(I read a very early copy of the book, with the original blurbs on the jacket. Random House was very sure o...more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 1 2 false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Tue Oct 02 15:06:13 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 15:06:27 -0700 2007
I am a pretty astute reader, I think, but I coul...more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 5 0 false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 05 08:44:10 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 08 13:23:38 -0800 2008 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 4 1 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 10:52:16 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 06:47:18 -0700 2009
The novel is not so much about its three main characters as it is about time and place and the threat of change. Uncle...more...]]> 463382 0679728724 9780679728726 133 22 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664081m/463382.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463382.The_Orchard_Keeper 1 0 false Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 10:49:53 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 09:44:31 -0700 2009 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 3 0 false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 13:54:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 13:29:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 2 1 false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 03:52:49 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 20:33:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 4 0 false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 17:02:36 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 20:23:47 -0700 2009
The thing that gets me in every one of Cormac McCarthy's books is the weird way in which he makes the subject of any sentence the subject of the book. Not in some bullshit existential way, but rather ...more...]]> 463382 0679728724 9780679728726 133 22 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664081m/463382.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463382.The_Orchard_Keeper 2 0 false Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 19:16:17 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 20:30:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 463382 0679728724 9780679728726 133 22 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664081m/463382.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463382.The_Orchard_Keeper 3 0 false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 27 07:43:24 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 12:26:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 4 0 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 23 12:16:16 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 12:24:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 46506 0330314912 9780330314916 684 60 3.56 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202758640m/46506.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46506.The_Orchard_Keeper 5 0 false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jun 09 00:31:37 -0700 2009 Sun Nov 15 05:20:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=463382