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Hyperrealism starts locally and rises from the ground up. Something of a Smokey Mountain apprentice piece, The Orchard Keeper opens in italics with three men cross-cutting an old elm twisted round a wrought-iron fence. They cease sawing and the Negro testifies. “Yessa, he said. It most sholy has. Growd all up in that tree.”
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
—“Anecdote of a Jar,” Wallace Stevens
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© 2009 Kenneth Lincoln
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Lincoln, K. (2009). Back to Appalachia: The Orchard Keeper . In: Cormac McCarthy. American Literature Readings in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230617841_4
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