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<p>In the Spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with the idea of writing a screenplay. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as <b>The Orchard Keeper</b> and <b>Child of God</b>, McCarthy had never before written a screenplay. Using nothing more than a few photographs in the footnotes to a 1928 biography of a famous pre-Civil War industrialist as inspiration, the author and Pearce together roamed the mill towns of the South researching their subject. One year later McCarthy finished <b>The Gardener's Son</b>,a taut, riveting drama of impotence, rage, and ultimately violence spanning two generations of mill owners and workers, fathers and sons, during the rise and fall of one of America's most bizarre utopian industrial experiments. Produced as a two-hour film and broadcast on PBS in 1976, <b>The Gardener's Son</b> recieved two Emmy Award nominations and was shown at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals. This is the first appearance of the film script in book form.</p> <p>Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, <b>The Gardener's Son</b> is the tale of two families: the Greggs, a wealthy family that owns an

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Author

Cormac, McCarthy

Publisher

The Ecco Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780880014816

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (394 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14