The Orchard Keeper
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The acclaimed first novel from one of Americas most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize8211winning novel The Road 8226 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 boys father The boy, John Wesley Rattner,and the outlaw, Marion Sylder8211together with Rattners Uncle Ather,who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence8211enact 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 Look for Cormac McCarthys latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris