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The Orchard Keeper - Cormac McCarthy - Bog

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An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America''s finest, most celebrated novelists.  Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, 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.  Together with Rattner''s Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they enact a drama that seems born of the land itself.  All three are heroes of an intense and compelling celebration of values lost to time and industrialization.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780679728726
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 256
  • Udgivet:
  • 2. februar 1993
  • Størrelse:
  • 203x132x17 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 198 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 20. november 2024

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An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America''s finest, most celebrated novelists.  Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, 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.  Together with Rattner''s Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they enact a drama that seems born of the land itself.  All three are heroes of an intense and compelling celebration of values lost to time and industrialization.

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