Mccarthy Cormac - The Gardener's Son - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Pulitzer Prize - winning author Cormac Mc Carthy's acclaimed first screenplay the basis for an Emmy - nominated film a taut riveting intergenerational drama of fathers and sons power inequality rage and violence set in post - Civil War South Carolina. Set in Graniteville South Carolina The Gardener's Son is a tale of privilege and hardship animosity and vengeance brought to life through two families: the Greggs the wealthy owners of a cotton mill and their employees the Mc Evoys a father and son beset by misfortune. After Robert Mc Evoy loses his leg in an accident rumored to have been caused by his nemesis James Gregg the son of the mill's founder the angry and bitter young man deserts his job and family. Two years later Robert returns. His mother is dying and his father the mill's gardener is confined indoors working the factory line. These intertwined events stoke the slow burning rage Mc Evoy has long carried a fury that erupts in a terrible act of violence that ultimately consumes the Gregg family and his own. Made into an acclaimed film broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener's Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was screened at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals.
Title: The Gardener's Son
Author(s): Mccarthy Cormac
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062287540
Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 12/9/2014