The Orchardist
By: Amanda Coplin
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780297867913; 9780297867906; 9780297867937
Subjects: Orchards; Families; Fruit growers; Pregnant teenagers; Fiction
Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, in a remote stretch of Northwest America, a solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots as if they were his children. One day, two teenage girls steal his fruit at the market. Feral, scared and very pregnant, they follow Talmadge to his land and form an unlikely attachment to his gentle way of life. But their fragile peace is shattered when armed men arrive in the orchard. In the tragedy that unfolds, Talmadge must fight to save the lives of those he has learned to love while confronting the ghosts of his own troubled past.
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