The Orchardist

Written by:
Amanda Coplin
Narrated by:
Mark Bramhall

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
29
Narrator
8
Release Date
August 2012
Duration
14 hours 29 minutes
Summary
“[A] mysterious, compelling, elemental novel….In The Orchardist, Amanda Coplin shows us what’s unknowable.”
—Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of National Book Award finalist, American Salvage

“Within this world are compelling characters and their equally compelling stories. The Orchardist is an outstanding debut.”
—Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena and The Cove

“Coplin is a masterful writer, the teller of an epic, unvarnished tale that sits comfortably with other novels in the tradition of great American storytelling.”
—Wally Lamb, New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed

At once intimate and epic, The Orchardist is historical fiction at its best, in the grand literary tradition of William Faulkner, Marilynne Robinson, Michael Ondaatje, Annie Proulx, and Toni Morrison. In her stunningly original and haunting debut novel, Amanda Coplin evokes a powerful sense of place, mixing tenderness and violence as she spins an engrossing tale of a solitary orchardist who provides shelter to two runaway teenage girls in the untamed American West, and the dramatic consequences of his actions. 
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Cyn K.

I liked this book up until about Part 5 and then it made a noticeable narrative shift in which there were large leaps in time while simultaneously focusing on the minutiae in the characters' lives. I wanted to like it more as the reviews I read compared the writer to Toni Morrison, but alas that's not what I experienced. It's not terrible by any means, but I do question some of the decisions the writer made.

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Peter M

Very long book, interesting story, but the excellent narration and Amada’s turning of a phrase kept me listening.

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Cheryl M

There is absolutely nothing in this book to make you feel good. It is verbose and repetitive. Although it is well read, by the end you are on the borderline of clinically depressed.

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Donna Shaid

It's very good but too wordy. Reading was very week done

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Anonymous

Not a feel good book, but a very interesting story. All the characters go through hard times and come through them in their own way given the events of their lives.

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