The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper

by Cormac McCarthy
The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper

by Cormac McCarthy

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307762504
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/11/2010
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 114,844
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

About The Author
The novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men—the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. He died in 2023.

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