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The Orchard Keeper

Cormac McCarthy

3.5/5 ( ratings)

An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they enact a drama that seems born of the land itself. All three are heroes of an intense and compelling celebration of values lost to time and industrialization.

Language: English

Pages: 246

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books

Release: February 02, 1993

ISBN: 0679728724

ISBN 13: 9780679728726

The Orchard Keeper

Cormac McCarthy

3.5/5 ( ratings)

An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists. Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father. Together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they enact a drama that seems born of the land itself. All three are heroes of an intense and compelling celebration of values lost to time and industrialization.

Language: English

Pages: 246

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books

Release: February 02, 1993

ISBN: 0679728724

ISBN 13: 9780679728726

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