Format:
246 S
,
Ill
,
21 cm
Edition:
1. Vintage International ed
ISBN:
0679728724
Content:
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.
Note:
Originally published in hardcover by Random House, inc., New York, in 1965
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/92056360-b.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/92056360-d.html
Author information:
McCarthy, Cormac 1933-2023
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