The Orchard Keeper -- Cormac McCarthy

<b>The first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, </b> <b>the <b>bestselling, </b> Pulitzer Prize-winning author of</b> <b><i>The Road.</i> Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the boy's father.</b> <p/>The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylder-together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence-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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Cormac McCarthy<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 02/02/1993<br><b>Pages:</b> 256<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.42lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.98h x 5.10w x 0.58d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679728726<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 01/11/1993<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in1933 and spent most of his childhood near Knoxville, Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Air Force and later studied at the University of Tennessee. In 1976 he moved to El Paso, Texas, where he lives today. McCarthy's fiction parallels his movement from the Southeast to the West--the first four novels being set in Tennessee, the last three in the Southwest and Mexico. <b>The Orchard Keeper</b> (19