The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy Paperback Book

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Author: Cormac McCarthy

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Published: Feb 1993

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $17.00

Pages: 256

Synopsis

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.

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