The Orchard Keeper

The acclaimed first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road - Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father.

The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylder-together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence-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.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02/02/1993
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.10w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780679728726