The Orchard Keeper
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The Orchard Keeper by Cormac Mccarthy
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.
Cormac McCarthy has won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his earlier novels, among which are the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679728726 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679728724 |
| Title | The Orchard Keeper |
| Author | Cormac Mccarthy |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1993-02-02 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |