The Orchard Keeper

by Cormac McCarthy Narrated by Ed Sala

Overview

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.
“McCarthy has a voice that is unmistakably his own ... with a passion most writers couldn't muster or wouldn't dare.”-The Boston Globe

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

This first novel by McCarthy (whose All the Pretty Horses won the National Book Award) is set in a remote Tennessee community between the world wars. (Feb.)

From the Publisher

"McCarthy has a voice that is unmistakably his own ... with a passion most writers couldn't muster or wouldn't dare." —The Boston Globe

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170907144
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	06/14/2013
Edition description:	Unabridged

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