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The Gardener's Son: A Screenplay
In the Spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with the idea of writing a screenplay. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as "The Orchard Keeper" and "Child of God," McCarthy had never before written a screenplay. Using nothing more than a few photographs in the footnotes to a 1928 biography of a famous pre-Civil War industrialist as inspiration, the author and Pearce together roamed the mill towns of the South researching their subject. One year later McCarthy finished "The Gardener's Son," a taut, riveting drama of impotence, rage, and ultimately violence spanning two generations of mill owners and workers, fathers and sons, during the rise and fall of one of America's most bizarre utopian industrial experiments. Produced as a two-hour film and broadcast on PBS in 1976, "The Gardener's Son" recieved two Emmy Award nominations and was shown at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals. This is the first appearance of the film script in book form.
Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, "The Gardener's Son" is the tale of two families: the Greggs, a wealthy family that owns and operates the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. The action opens as Robert McEvoy, a young mill worker, is having his leg amputated -- the limb mangled in an accident rumored to have been caused by James Gregg, son of the mill's founder. McEvoy, crippled and isolated, grows into a man with a "troubled heart"; consumed by bitterness and anger, he deserts both his job and his family.
Returning two years later at the news of his mother's terminal illness, Robert McEvoy arrives only to confront the grave diggers preparing her final resting place. His father, the mill's gardener, is now working on the factory line, the gardens forgotten. These proceedings stoke the slow burning rage McEvoy carries within him, a fury that ultimately consumes both the McEvoys and the Greggs.
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First published September 1, 1996
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About the author
Cormac McCarthy
46 books28.6k followersCormac McCarthy was a highly acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter celebrated for his distinctive literary style, philosophical depth, and exploration of violence, morality, and the human condition. His writing, often characterized by sparse punctuation and lyrical, biblical language, delved into the primal forces that shape human behavior, set against the haunting landscapes of the American South and Southwest.
McCarthy’s early novels, including The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark, established him as a powerful voice in Southern Gothic literature, while Blood Meridian (1985) is frequently cited as his magnum opus—a brutal, visionary epic about violence and manifest destiny in the American West. In the 1990s, his "Border Trilogy"—All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain—garnered widespread popularity and critical acclaim, blending coming-of-age themes with philosophical introspection and tragic realism.
His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by the Coen brothers, and his harrowing post-apocalyptic tale The Road (2006) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was also made into a major motion picture. Both works brought him mainstream recognition and a broader readership later in his career.
Despite his fame, McCarthy remained famously private and rarely gave interviews, preferring to let his work speak for itself. His legacy endures through his powerful, often unsettling portrayals of humanity’s struggle with fate, violence, and redemption, making him one of the most influential and original voices in modern American literature.
McCarthy’s early novels, including The Orchard Keeper and Outer Dark, established him as a powerful voice in Southern Gothic literature, while Blood Meridian (1985) is frequently cited as his magnum opus—a brutal, visionary epic about violence and manifest destiny in the American West. In the 1990s, his "Border Trilogy"—All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, and Cities of the Plain—garnered widespread popularity and critical acclaim, blending coming-of-age themes with philosophical introspection and tragic realism.
His 2005 novel No Country for Old Men was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film by the Coen brothers, and his harrowing post-apocalyptic tale The Road (2006) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was also made into a major motion picture. Both works brought him mainstream recognition and a broader readership later in his career.
Despite his fame, McCarthy remained famously private and rarely gave interviews, preferring to let his work speak for itself. His legacy endures through his powerful, often unsettling portrayals of humanity’s struggle with fate, violence, and redemption, making him one of the most influential and original voices in modern American literature.
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June 5, 2017
3.5
This is a short screenplay but packs a harsh punch like only Cormac can deliver.
And now my next step, obviously, is to actually see the play.
September 27, 2016
First you get sick. Then the headaches come. Next thing you know you can’t read for more than ten minutes without feeling a jackhammering in your head. Bing bam boom…you’re reading a fucking screenplay! Eh. How low have I sunk?
But I hear your cries. ‘Cody! Cody! What of the book? Is it fantastic? Horrible? Will you please not answer our pleas and forgive us our homonyms?’
No.
But I hear your cries. ‘Cody! Cody! What of the book? Is it fantastic? Horrible? Will you please not answer our pleas and forgive us our homonyms?’
No.
August 10, 2013
Life. Death. Fathers. Sons. Inheritance. Murder. Sin. Death. Innocence. Memory. Community. Loneliness. Money. Poverty. God. Garden. Madness. Cormac McCarthy.
November 9, 2023
Entertaining play listening 🎶🔰
This is a novella kindle e-book from the local library.
I don't know what I expected but plays are not my style of listening 🎶🔰.
I would recommend that you give it a try and see 👀 if it works for you. 2023
This is my first book by this author. I will have to give another book a try.
This is a novella kindle e-book from the local library.
I don't know what I expected but plays are not my style of listening 🎶🔰.
I would recommend that you give it a try and see 👀 if it works for you. 2023
This is my first book by this author. I will have to give another book a try.
January 2, 2015
First off, I love Cormac McCarthy, I absolutely love his writing. No Country For Old Men. The Road. Oh My God The Road! There may not be a better written apocalyptic father and son tale of traversing across the country after desolation and anarchy have set in. The Road is, without the zombies, what the Walking Dead tries to be.
The screenplay; The Gardner's Son captures the style and oppression of a Cormac McCarthy story. The tale of regular men, doing what they feel must be the right thing, only to have it spiral out of their grasp as they fall victims to a situation that is far bigger than themselves.
Cormac McCarthy wrote the screenplay for The Gardener's son in 1976 and it was broadcast on PBS that same year. It received two Emmy award nominations.
The story of two families separated by wealth and privilege in a small Southern Mill town. The McEvoys and the Greggs. Robert McEvoy, as the story begins, is having his leg amputated due to a Mill accident thought to be caused by the affluent son of the Mill owner; James Gregg. In anger and bitterness, Robert leaves town, deserting his family.
Upon the death of his mother, two years later, Robert returns. He is hardened from his time on the road. He learns that his father, a once proud gardener for the Greggs no longer works in the gardens but in the darkness of the Mill. Fueled by a simmering hate for the wrongs done to his family he confronts James Gregg and shoots him dead.
The trial and punishment that follows will consume what is left of the two families and the town itself, exposing the lies and secrets of a small Southern town.
Written as a screenplay and presented as such, it may not have the full sense of drama and flow as a novel would, but in the hands of McCarthy it is conveyed very well. Cormac McCarthy has a voice in his writing that is as unique and harmonious with the written page as anything being printed today. He may very well be the voice of that dusty little underbelly of small town America that we thought long dead. But in fact breathes very well still.
After reading this screenplay I know I will be looking for the television movie in video or streaming.
A very good read.
The screenplay; The Gardner's Son captures the style and oppression of a Cormac McCarthy story. The tale of regular men, doing what they feel must be the right thing, only to have it spiral out of their grasp as they fall victims to a situation that is far bigger than themselves.
Cormac McCarthy wrote the screenplay for The Gardener's son in 1976 and it was broadcast on PBS that same year. It received two Emmy award nominations.
The story of two families separated by wealth and privilege in a small Southern Mill town. The McEvoys and the Greggs. Robert McEvoy, as the story begins, is having his leg amputated due to a Mill accident thought to be caused by the affluent son of the Mill owner; James Gregg. In anger and bitterness, Robert leaves town, deserting his family.
Upon the death of his mother, two years later, Robert returns. He is hardened from his time on the road. He learns that his father, a once proud gardener for the Greggs no longer works in the gardens but in the darkness of the Mill. Fueled by a simmering hate for the wrongs done to his family he confronts James Gregg and shoots him dead.
The trial and punishment that follows will consume what is left of the two families and the town itself, exposing the lies and secrets of a small Southern town.
Written as a screenplay and presented as such, it may not have the full sense of drama and flow as a novel would, but in the hands of McCarthy it is conveyed very well. Cormac McCarthy has a voice in his writing that is as unique and harmonious with the written page as anything being printed today. He may very well be the voice of that dusty little underbelly of small town America that we thought long dead. But in fact breathes very well still.
After reading this screenplay I know I will be looking for the television movie in video or streaming.
A very good read.
July 7, 2019
My favorite author, hard for me not to appreciate his first screenplay (later came The Counselor, Sunset Limited and The Stonemason, all spectacular). The story is the conflict of the impoverished migrant worker family and the up and coming owner class family. Both are sympathetic and tragic. The gardener harkens to when the original owner tolerated in good times a garden but the owners eventually put him back on the assembly line, extracting his soul and maintaining the underclass and its seething anger, manifest by the injured son. Eventually the crippled and wounded ego of the son leads him to exact his revenge, is then executed by hanging, and the tragedy ultimately destroys both families. It is a tale of loss and the transient and cyclical nature of human endeavors. A beautiful tragedy, the language of the common folk in the post civil war south is a thing of beauty. McCarthy’s ear for dialogue in this era is almost supernaturally perfect and beautiful in its simplicity and clarity of expression. I’ve got only The Road of his, which I continue to hoard like the treasure I am sure that it is.
p. 42, an old man recalling the sanctity of the garden in a better time: “Back years ago of a winder day if it was sunshiny I’d come out here at dinner time and take my dinner here. It would be warm in here and you could smell stuff growin. I’d get a crate and set on it and take my dinner and just set here. It was an awful pleasant place. Your Daddy would come by sometimes and see me settin in there but he’d just go on. He never would say nuthin. Then here back last fall one evenin I was makin my rounds and I thought I seen a light down here. I come in and held my lannern up and there sat your daddy. He was just a settin there in the dark. I ast him if he was alright and he said yes. Said he just wanted to get out of the house for awhile.”
p. 68, the black lawyer philosophizing, and showing McCarthy’s future proclivities: “If men were no more than god there’d be no peace in this world. Everwhere I look I see men trying to set right the inequities that God left them with.”
p. 69, more from said lawyer, yet more spleen: “They say that Go sends no man a burden greater than he can bear.” The defeated father replies “Ay. Nor much less neither.”
p. 91, the daughter in old age, perhaps the only one left with any residual (and piquant) memory, sums up the theme to the young supplicant in the pure country idiom that the author specializes in: “I was always a fool about flowers. I guess I take after my daddy thataway. He was a nurseryman. He had peach orchards…you never seen the likes of peaches. They used to ship em out by train. Just carloads of em. He had a touch with anything growin. Just had a sleight for it.”
p. 42, an old man recalling the sanctity of the garden in a better time: “Back years ago of a winder day if it was sunshiny I’d come out here at dinner time and take my dinner here. It would be warm in here and you could smell stuff growin. I’d get a crate and set on it and take my dinner and just set here. It was an awful pleasant place. Your Daddy would come by sometimes and see me settin in there but he’d just go on. He never would say nuthin. Then here back last fall one evenin I was makin my rounds and I thought I seen a light down here. I come in and held my lannern up and there sat your daddy. He was just a settin there in the dark. I ast him if he was alright and he said yes. Said he just wanted to get out of the house for awhile.”
p. 68, the black lawyer philosophizing, and showing McCarthy’s future proclivities: “If men were no more than god there’d be no peace in this world. Everwhere I look I see men trying to set right the inequities that God left them with.”
p. 69, more from said lawyer, yet more spleen: “They say that Go sends no man a burden greater than he can bear.” The defeated father replies “Ay. Nor much less neither.”
p. 91, the daughter in old age, perhaps the only one left with any residual (and piquant) memory, sums up the theme to the young supplicant in the pure country idiom that the author specializes in: “I was always a fool about flowers. I guess I take after my daddy thataway. He was a nurseryman. He had peach orchards…you never seen the likes of peaches. They used to ship em out by train. Just carloads of em. He had a touch with anything growin. Just had a sleight for it.”
July 20, 2016
The Gardener’s Son, McCarthy’s first screenplay, was originally adapted as a teleplay (starring Ned Beatty) for the show Visions in 1977. Like much of McCarthy’s other early work, the story is Southern Gothic in tone and explores how characters on the margins of society interact with a world that seemingly has passed them by. The Gregg and McEvoy families, two groups that live on very different sides of the proverbial tracks, find themselves in an unexpected and violent conflict. McCarthy builds the intrigue by only partially explaining the conflict's sources to the reader.
Although I did not find this as engrossing as McCarthy’s early novels, this screenplay showcases many of his literary gifts: great (if understated) dialogue, a vivid setting, and the creation of a story that seems almost timeless. It would be interesting to see how this story ultimately translated to film, as the plot can be highly reflective. As a text, this is a short and worthwhile read that will interest fans of McCarthy’s more famous work. 3.5 stars, recommended.
Although I did not find this as engrossing as McCarthy’s early novels, this screenplay showcases many of his literary gifts: great (if understated) dialogue, a vivid setting, and the creation of a story that seems almost timeless. It would be interesting to see how this story ultimately translated to film, as the plot can be highly reflective. As a text, this is a short and worthwhile read that will interest fans of McCarthy’s more famous work. 3.5 stars, recommended.
January 4, 2025
Depressing and very good as usual. Hard to get the same impact in a screenplay format that McCarthy does in a novel but still extremely enagaging and very McCarthy and full of plenty of layers
January 8, 2024
About as morbid and poignant as you’d expect from McCarthy; worth a read to see how he writes for such a different medium. Thematically this isn’t new territory for him but it’s a quick and worthwhile read. Round up from 3.5
February 10, 2022
eggs is eggs
January 2, 2022
4.3 stars
I did not really have any expectations when I picked up The Gardener's Son this morning, but I wasn't disappointed.
Cormac McCarthy's haunting tale of one family's misfortune is a bloody brilliant writing.
I only wished though that the screenplay was much longer than it was; if it were, I would have given it 5 stars with no issue.
Book #1 of 2022
I did not really have any expectations when I picked up The Gardener's Son this morning, but I wasn't disappointed.
Cormac McCarthy's haunting tale of one family's misfortune is a bloody brilliant writing.
I only wished though that the screenplay was much longer than it was; if it were, I would have given it 5 stars with no issue.
Book #1 of 2022
August 12, 2021
I thought....lets try a screenplay after so many years just to confirm that I should have extended the years even more.
August 19, 2017
This is one of McCarthy's earlier works; a screenplay about the son of a gardener. Despite such a cursory glimpse at the various characters I really felt for them by the end.
December 25, 2023
The Gardener's Son is another captivating creation by the literary genius Cormac McCarthy. As someone on a personal quest to devour everything McCarthy has ever penned, I found this screenplay to be a solid addition to his impressive body of work. While it may not have left as indelible a mark on me as some of his other masterpieces, it still holds its own.
Set in the post-Civil War era, The Gardener's Son explores the complex dynamics between two families, the Greggs and the McEvoys, in a small mill town. The story focuses on Robert McEvoy, the son of the mill's gardener, who, after an accident, loses a leg. This event sets off a chain of events that deeply affects both families. The screenplay delves into themes of class conflict, family loyalty, and the harsh realities of industrialization. The narrative is folded around the mysterious circumstances leading to the murder of the mill owner's son, James Gregg, for which Robert is implicated. As the story unfolds, McCarthy masterfully unravels the intricate relationships and social tensions within the town, leading to a climactic and thought-provoking conclusion.
McCarthy's signature style, characterized by a knack for exploring the darker facets of human nature, is without a doubt present in The Gardener's Son. The narrative unfolds in a way that draws you in, and as with all of his works, it is impossible to escape the haunting atmosphere he effortlessly conjures.
The characters, as expected from McCarthy, are multifaceted, leaving room for contemplation long after the story has concluded. While I may not have been as deeply affected by them as I have been by some of his other creations, they still left an impression.
In the grand scheme of Cormac McCarthy's literary brilliance, The Gardener's Son may not shine quite as brightly, but it is still a worthwhile and engaging read. For those on a journey to explore McCarthy's entire body of work, it is an essential piece of the puzzle.
Set in the post-Civil War era, The Gardener's Son explores the complex dynamics between two families, the Greggs and the McEvoys, in a small mill town. The story focuses on Robert McEvoy, the son of the mill's gardener, who, after an accident, loses a leg. This event sets off a chain of events that deeply affects both families. The screenplay delves into themes of class conflict, family loyalty, and the harsh realities of industrialization. The narrative is folded around the mysterious circumstances leading to the murder of the mill owner's son, James Gregg, for which Robert is implicated. As the story unfolds, McCarthy masterfully unravels the intricate relationships and social tensions within the town, leading to a climactic and thought-provoking conclusion.
McCarthy's signature style, characterized by a knack for exploring the darker facets of human nature, is without a doubt present in The Gardener's Son. The narrative unfolds in a way that draws you in, and as with all of his works, it is impossible to escape the haunting atmosphere he effortlessly conjures.
The characters, as expected from McCarthy, are multifaceted, leaving room for contemplation long after the story has concluded. While I may not have been as deeply affected by them as I have been by some of his other creations, they still left an impression.
In the grand scheme of Cormac McCarthy's literary brilliance, The Gardener's Son may not shine quite as brightly, but it is still a worthwhile and engaging read. For those on a journey to explore McCarthy's entire body of work, it is an essential piece of the puzzle.
April 9, 2022
'The Gardener's Son' is a screenplay by prestigious author Cormac McCarthy and it was written in the spring of 1975, later published in 1996. With a prose that is lighter than usual, McCarthy relies on the showing method as there is limited time for telling. Subtle generational warfare quietly rages as seeds of class differences are presented through scene descriptions and stage directions. Displaying a prosperous setting that comes with a cost, the tale teeters between two families whose only similarity comes with the connection of occupation. With a clear line between superior and worker and drawing from historical sources, McCarthy creates a short fuse lit by a capitalist industry and questionable human behavior.
The screenplay format makes for a quick read and actually enhances McCarthy's desire to create ambiguous people and the feelings that drive them. Parallels are drawn between characters despite their financial differences, they appear as bloodless relatives; parasites merely occupying the same host.
With blurred intentions and a single burst of violence, death in both a physical and spiritual form are used as motivators. The legacies of fathers are polluted by the sons as inherited responsibilities are either altered or completely rejected. Consequences lead to bloodlines reaching their final destination unannounced as the actions of men leave the women to cope with tragedy, the familial line forever disconnected.
'The Gardener's Son' is a taut and airy revenge tale in post-Civil War South Carolina. Focusing on the communal changes that comes with the existence of a patriarchy, McCarthy always speaks with authenticity and this well constructed tale should please any reader of his. While not as philosophically enlightening as 'The Sunset Limited, the primal behavior and economic disparities ultimately makes 'The Gardener's Son' a thematically heavy read.
The screenplay format makes for a quick read and actually enhances McCarthy's desire to create ambiguous people and the feelings that drive them. Parallels are drawn between characters despite their financial differences, they appear as bloodless relatives; parasites merely occupying the same host.
With blurred intentions and a single burst of violence, death in both a physical and spiritual form are used as motivators. The legacies of fathers are polluted by the sons as inherited responsibilities are either altered or completely rejected. Consequences lead to bloodlines reaching their final destination unannounced as the actions of men leave the women to cope with tragedy, the familial line forever disconnected.
'The Gardener's Son' is a taut and airy revenge tale in post-Civil War South Carolina. Focusing on the communal changes that comes with the existence of a patriarchy, McCarthy always speaks with authenticity and this well constructed tale should please any reader of his. While not as philosophically enlightening as 'The Sunset Limited, the primal behavior and economic disparities ultimately makes 'The Gardener's Son' a thematically heavy read.
April 10, 2017
This is a very short dramatic work; very different of course from McCarthy's novels, and different also from The Sunset Limited - being a screenplay it contains not only dialogue but extensive directions on framing and character acting. Even in this condensed and inflexible format, McCarthy manages to capture much of what makes his novel writing so great. I believe that his real skill is not only in the telling, but in knowing what to leave out: he never exposes his characters' inner lives (desires, motivations, fears), but instead lets you simply observe them and draw your own conclusions. The Gardener's Son is haunting and unsettling in that it never really explains itself. In fact, its protagonist at the critical moment is actively prevented from speaking, leaving the observers (both the reader and the other characters) to struggle for understanding. Beautifully subtle and skillful storytelling.
December 14, 2016
The brilliant McCarthy.
October 4, 2023
Cormac would have loved Ethel Cain.
August 16, 2017
It is difficult to rate a screenplay in a system designed for rating books. In a sense, it's an "apples and oranges"-type comparison. But McCarthy's The Gardener's Son was masterful and literary and evocative. Oh, and of course "McCarthian." Powerful feelings of family and justice and vengeance. Moving images. Does not have the same depth of imagery and symbolism as some of his longer literary works, but McCarthy perfectly captures tone and dialogue and conveys perception like no one else. Less is always more with him. And the vocabulary is downright simple compared to, say, Blood Meridian. Another must-read for any die-hard McCarthy fan. Hit it!
April 26, 2023
This was fine....writing-wise, it still had that McCarthy touch, but wasn't as impactful to me as his full novels. Maybe that was due to it being a screenplay but people read Shakespeare plays, right?
The story is set in 1865 in Graniteville, SC. This is a town near where I live so the setting was very familiar to me. The old mills still stand (a few of them) and one of those mills was a setting in this screenplay (turned film in the '70s). Two families, one who runs the mill and one who works at the mill, end up at odds and both families meet with tragic circumstances.
The story is set in 1865 in Graniteville, SC. This is a town near where I live so the setting was very familiar to me. The old mills still stand (a few of them) and one of those mills was a setting in this screenplay (turned film in the '70s). Two families, one who runs the mill and one who works at the mill, end up at odds and both families meet with tragic circumstances.
July 14, 2023
Unfortunately, THE GARDENER’S SON is just a rehash of themes McCarthy already explored at greater length, and with more poise, in THE ORCHARD KEEPER (anti-industrialism) and OUTER DARK (gnosticism). As scholar Dianne C. Luce notes, it also borrows too heavily from Camus’s THE STRANGER. Overall, it’s probably McCarthy’s least impressive work.
January 4, 2025
I just enjoy the way McCarthy writes. And I made it a mission to read a majority of his works. This screen play reminds me of an abbreviated version of East of Eden by Steinbeck. Not in plot, but in tone. I really enjoyed this.
September 8, 2025
A screenplay is an odd format to read a story just for the sake of reading a story. Even though it's set in my beloved South Carolina I didn't vibe with it and there are clear holes throughout. Perhaps I ought to watch the movie to appreciate this tale in the format that it was intended to be consumed.
September 21, 2018
2.5 stars for me. The screenplay thing is not really working for me with this one, rather watch the movie .
December 24, 2020
Rich dialogue and a smooth Southern Gothic plot lend themselves to a detailed, albeit short read. Very immersive and well worth reading!
January 18, 2025
This screenplay is a good intro to McCarthy’s writing style. It’s a short read so I didn’t feel like I suffered long, but I did indeed suffer. With that being said, I recommend :)
January 15, 2020
Honor leads you nowhere but your head emo “And you have a good life. Little sister. The best that anybody ever had in this damned world.”
November 7, 2025
Not sure how to rate this since its a screenplay not a book, but its fantastic. I think im biased though Cormac is my man.
April 8, 2018
Subtle, maybe too subtle. If you like Cormac McCarthy's gritty, accusatory style, this is a very quick read.
August 27, 2018
Times past are fugitive. They caint be kept in no box.
I'm not ordinarily one to read screenplays, but this is an unusual case. After his first three short novels, a still relatively unknown Cormac McCarthy was headhunted by the still relatively unknown documentary filmmaker Richard Pierce to write a telemovie script.
Two years and $200,000 later, it was a two hour episode of the PBS anthology series Visions. Unfortunately it's now exceedingly difficult to come by a copy of the video in any form, although some rare dvds exist.
There's no indication that the adaptation was anything special, so where that leaves us is to contemplate the screenplay in the context of McCarthy's oeuvre without the complication of actors, producers, and the rest of that circus.
The story is a fictionalised account of a historical murder and trial in 1876 in Graniteville, South Carolina. With reliable details being sketchy, there was plenty of room for artistic licence. And as might be expected under the circumstances, the brief was very much in McCarthy's wheelhouse. Hence he produced something of a streamlined and simplified version of a novel, still indelibly stamped with his signature.
If his hauntingly bleak depictions of humanity and the South are of interest, The Gardener's Son will not disappoint, regardless of its status as something of a curio compared to his more substantial works.
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