The Orchard Keeper

PRAISE FOR CORMAC MCCARTHY

“[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.”

— The 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

“A master in perfect command of his medium.”

— Washington Post Book World

“A true American original.”

— Newsweek

“Mr. McCarthy has the best kind of Southern style, one that fuses risky eloquence, intricate rhythms and dead-to-rights accuracy.”

— The New York Times

“McCarthy is a born narrator, and his writing has, line by line, the stab of actuality.”

— Robert Penn Warren