coolstreamer 's review for:

The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy

4.5

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Mesmerizing prose. He identifies so deeply with his subject, often a piece of the natural world. Sometimes it's a person and there he seems to stand within the person at that moment, offering no particular judgement. There is loneliness, alienation and beauty. There is an implied juxtaposition of an old almost pre-industrial culture, and now the "modern world" swirling around in an unimaginably old and unknowable universe. This particular story I related to especially because of the setting in the Appalachians around Maryville, basically my grandparent's generation (and more ancient).