by Cormac Mc Carthy (Author)
Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early classic from one of America's finest and most celebrated authors. 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. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time. 'The feeling for the land and seasons is so intense as to be part of the story and there are scenes one will never forget ...A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life' Harper's 'A true American original' Newsweek
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: Main Market
Publisher: Picador
Published: 01 Jan 2010
ISBN 10: 0330511254
ISBN 13: 9780330511254
Book Overview: 'There isn't anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature' New York Times