Set in Graniteville, South Carolina, The Gardener's Son is a tale of privilege and hardship, animosity and vengeance. The McEvoys, a poor family beset by misfortune, must work in the cotton mill owned by the Greggs. But when Robert McEvoy loses his leg in an accident—rumored to have been caused by his nemesis, James Gregg—the bitter young man deserts his job and family.
Two years later, Robert returns. His mother is dying, and his father, the mill's gardener, is confined indoors working the factory line. These intertwined events stoke the slow burning rage McEvoy has long carried, a fury that erupts in a terrible act of violence that ultimately consumes the Gregg family and his own.
Made into an acclaimed film broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener's Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was screened at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals.
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Library Journal
July 1, 2014
In spring 1975, film director Richard Pearce asked McCarthy to write a screenplay, something the distinguished novelist had never done before. Drawing inspiration from a few footnotes in a 1928 biography of a famous antebellum industrialist, McCarthy ultimately completed a classically tough-minded McCarthy-esque tale of two Southern families, the mill-owning Greggs and the McElvoys, who are among the mill's employees. The film was broadcast on PBS in 1976 and received two Emmy Award nominations; the screenplay is back in print and available in trade paperback for the first time.
Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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