| The Orchard Keeper Contributor(s): McCarthy, Cormac (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679728724 ISBN-13: 9780679728726 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1993 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92056360 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.1" W x 7.98" (0.42 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |