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The orchard keeper / Cormac McCarthy.

by McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023.

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Vintage Books, 1993.

Rural conditions -- Fiction.

Outlaws -- Fiction.

Tennessee -- Fiction.

9780679728726 (trade pbk.)

1st Vintage International ed.

246 p. ; 21 cm.

Originally published in hardcover by Random House, inc., New York, in 1965.

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.

Psychological fiction.

Historical fiction.

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