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The gardener's son : a screenplay / Cormac McCarthy.

by McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023.

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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014, c1996.

Murder -- South Carolina -- Drama.

Revenge -- Drama.

Enemies -- Drama.

Wealth -- Drama.

Families -- Drama.

Textile factories -- Drama.

9780062287540 (pbk.)

0062287540 (pbk.)

First Ecco paperback edition.

xiv, 96 pages ; 21 cm.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed first screenplay, the basis for an Emmy-nominated television drama -- a taut, riveting intergenerational story of fathers and sons, power, inequality, rage, and violence set in post-Civil War South Carolina. The story is based around a strange murder in Graniteville, South Carolina in 1876 that is without many details. The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who own and operate the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. The action opens as Robert McEvoy, a young mill worker, is having his leg amputated after an accident rumored to have been caused by James Gregg, the son of the mill's founder. Crippled and consumed by bitterness, McEvoy deserts both his job and his family. Returning two years later at the news of his mother's terminal illness, McEvoy arrives only to confront the grave diggers preparing her final resting place. His father, the mill's gardener, is now working on the factory line, the gardens forgotten. These proceedings stoke the slow-burning rage McEvoy carries within him, a fury that will ultimately consume both families. The Gardener's Son was broadcast as a two-hour episode (the 12th episode) of the first season of the PBS television series Visions on January 6, 1977. Visions was a drama series on PBS that aired mostly unrelated teleplays directed and written by various directors and writers. The Gardener's Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was screened at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals.

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