The Gardener's Son

A Screenplay

by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy's 1976 screenplay for a PBS film tells the story of the intertwined fates of two South Carolina families: the wealthy Greggs and the blue-collar McEvoys who work at the Gregg mill. After an accident at the mill that was possibly the fault of one of the Greggs, Robert McEvoy crippled for life--and his fury and desire for revenge become all-consuming. Finally he leaves town, an embittered man. But he returns many years later for his mother's funeral--and to continue the unfinished business between the two families. THE GARDENER'S SON was nominated for two Emmy Awards.

Available editions of The Gardener's Son

	9780880014816, Hardcover, Harpercollins, 1996 $15.96 () Other copies of 9780880014816

Publisher Notes

In the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with the idea of writing a screenplay. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before written a screenplay. Using nothing more than a few paragraphs in the footnotes to a 1928 biography of a famous pre-Civil War industrialist as inspiration, the author and Pearce together roamed the mill towns of the South researching their subject. One year later McCarthy finished The Gardener's Son, a taut, riveting drama of impotence, rage, and ultimately violence spanning two generations of mill owners and workers, fathers and sons, during the rise and fall of one of America's most bizarre utopian industrial experiments. Produced as a two-hour film and broadcast on PBS in 1976, The Gardener's Son received two Emmy Award nominations and was shown at the Berlin and Edinburgh Film Festivals. This is the first appearance of the film script in book form.

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