The orchardist
By: Amanda Coplin
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 669
ISBN-13: 9781594136276
Subjects: Orchards; Fruit growers; Families; Pregnant teenagers; Fiction
Description: "At the turn of the twentieth century in the Pacific Northwest, reclusive orchardist William Talmadge tends to his apples and apricots. One day, two teenaged girls steal his fruit and later return to his orchard to see the man who gave them no chase. Feral, scared, and pregnant, they take up on Talmadge's land and indulge in his deep reservoir of compassion. But just as the girls begin to trust him, men arrive in the orchard with guns ..." --P. [4] of cover.