{"product_id":"the-orchardist-a-novel-harper-perennial-olive-editions-9780062564603","title":"The Orchardist: A Novel (Harper Perennial Olive Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe New York Times bestselling novel that is historical fiction at its besta haunting story about a makeshift family in the American West that follows in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner  Marilynne Robinson  Michael Ondaatje  Annie Proulx  and Toni Morrisonnow available in a limited Olive Edition. A stunning accomplishment  hypnotic in its storytelling power  by turns lyrical and gritty  and filled with marvels.National Public Radio At the turn of the twentieth century  in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest  a reclusive orchardist  William Talmadge  tends to apples and apricots as if they were loved ones. A gentle man  hes found solace in the sweetness of the fruit he grows and the quiet  beating heart of the land he cultivates. One day  two teenage girls appear and steal his fruit at the market; they later return to the outskirts of his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral  scared  and very pregnant  the girls take up on Talmadges land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. Just as the girls begin to trust him  men arrive in the orchard with guns  and the shattering tragedy that follows will set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect them but also to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past. Transcribing America as it once was before railways and roads connected its corners  Amanda Coplin weaves a tapestry of solitary souls who come together in the wake of unspeakable cruelty and misfortune. She writes with breathtaking precision and empathy  and in The Orchardist she crafts an astonishing debut novel about a man who disrupts the lonely harmony of an ordered life when he opens his heart and lets the world in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276920873013,"sku":"ByrdShop_0062564609","price":63.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780062564603.jpg?v=1780566109","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-orchardist-a-novel-harper-perennial-olive-editions-9780062564603","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}