8443 91cab4e3-4243-46f2-ae3a-9fa52c0420f0 The Orchard Keeper Cormac McCarthy calibre (0.8.2) [http://calibre-ebook.com] 1993-01-15T01:56:54+00:00 SUMMARY: 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. Vintage Books 9780679728726 en Fiction