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The Gardener´s Son
Cormac McCarthy
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Description for The Gardener´s Son
Paperback. The first screenplay by Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: APFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
The original screenplay, The Gardener's Son, is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. Two years ago, Robert McEvoy was involved in an accident that led to the amputation of his leg. Consumed by bitterness and anger, he quit his job at the mill and fled. Now, news of his mother's terminal illness brings Robert home. What he finds on his return stokes the slow burning rage he carries within him, a fury that ultimately consumes both the McEvoys ... Read more
The original screenplay, The Gardener's Son, is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. Two years ago, Robert McEvoy was involved in an accident that led to the amputation of his leg. Consumed by bitterness and anger, he quit his job at the mill and fled. Now, news of his mother's terminal illness brings Robert home. What he finds on his return stokes the slow burning rage he carries within him, a fury that ultimately consumes both the McEvoys ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
92g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447273134
SKU
V9781447273134
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Ref
99-50
About Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road. Among his honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature.
Reviews for The Gardener´s Son
The Gardener's Son ... refuses to send us off to bed secure in the knowledge that everything in this life has a defined beginning, middle and end ... evoked with almost poetic vividness ... The result is strangely haunting ... a memorable portrait of another place in another time
John O'Connor New York Times The Gardener's Son ... refuses ... Read more
John O'Connor New York Times The Gardener's Son ... refuses ... Read more