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The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper

Cormac Mccarthy

"Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is a 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 magnif...

Publisher:
Pan
Year of publication:
2010
ISBN:
978-0-330-51125-4
Pages:
259
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"Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is a 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."--Cover.

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