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The Orchard Keeper

Cormac McCarthy
3.52/5 (8820 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.
Format:
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
3rd ed.
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0330314912
ISBN13:
9780330314916
kindle Asin:
B003XT60HM

The Orchard Keeper

Cormac McCarthy
3.52/5 (8820 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.
Format:
Pages:
256 pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
3rd ed.
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0330314912
ISBN13:
9780330314916
kindle Asin:
B003XT60HM