The orchard keeper - cormac mccarthy

An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of Americas finest novelists and author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller All the Pretty Horses.

Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee, it tells the story of a young boy and the outlaw bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boys father.

An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of Americas 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 boys father.

Together with Rattners 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.