The Orchard Keeper

Mr McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style, one that fuses risky eloquence, intricate rhythms and dead-to-rights accuracy * New York Times * The feeling for the land and seasons is so intense as to be part of the story and there are scenes one will never forget . . . A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life. * Harper’s * A true American original. * Newsweek * McCarthy puts most other American writers to shame. His work itself repays the tight focus of his attention with its finely-wrought craftsmanship and its ferocious energy * New York Times Book Review * McCarthy is a master stylist, perhaps without equal in American letters . . . In his hands, everything is done with consummate skill – a kind of maximalism with precision crafting * Village Voice * No other novelist in America seems to have looked the work of Faulkner in the eye without blinking and lived to write in his spirit without sounding like a parody of the master * Dallas Morning News *