The Orchard Keeper Summary
Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy, whose early novels were often set in eastern Tennessee and whose later work focuses on the American Southwest, is frequently compared with such Southern-based writers as William Faulk... Read more

In the following excerpt, Sullivan discusses The Orchard Keeper and the triumph of technology over man in the novel. The Orchard Keeper is Cormac McCarthy's first novel, but at thirty-three,... Read more