The Orchard Keeper (Vintage International) Author: Cormac Mccarthy
	Book Information Publisher: Vintage Book Type: Paperback Members Wishing: 24 Rating: 4 ISBN-13: 9780679728726 - ISBN-10: 0679728724 Publication Date: 2/2/1993 Pages: 256

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.