All rights reserved THE ECCO PRESS 100 West Broad Street Hopewell, New Jersey 08525 Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Ontario Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCarthy, Cormac, 1933— The gardener’s son : a screenplay / Cormac McCarthy. —1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-88001-481-4 (case) I. Gardeners son (Motion picture) II. Title. Pn1997.G3194 1996 79I-43'72-Dc20 96-13611 Designed by Barbara Aronica The text of this book is set in Caslon 987654321 FIRST EDITION Foreword In the spring of 1975 I sent Cormac McCarthy a letter in care of a post office box in El Paso, Texas. His wife in Maryville, Tennessee and his editor at Random House were protective of his whereabouts, but they both assured me that, wherever he was, he picked up his mail every six weeks or so. At the time I was a documentary filmmaker on sabbatical (thanks to a fellowship from a journalism foundation) with money to spend (thanks to a Public Television series entitled “Visions”) looking for a screenwriter.
