The Orchard Keeper
  • Published:
    May-1965
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    246
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The acclaimed first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning novel The Road • 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.

The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylderâ€"together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independenceâ€"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.

Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
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    •  
    • Jan-1982
    • Ecco Press
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0880010096
    • ISBN13: 9780880010092
    •  
    • Feb-1993
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679728724
    • ISBN13: 9780679728726
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    • Mar-1994
    • Picador (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330314912
    • ISBN13: 9780330314916
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    • Jan-2010
    • Picador (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330511254
    • ISBN13: 9780330511254
    •  
    • Dec-1965
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394439368
    • ISBN13: 9780394439365
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    • Feb-1993
    • Turtleback Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1417718439
    • ISBN13: 9781417718436
    • Library Binding
    •  
    • Jan-1994
    • Peter Smith Publisher
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 084466751X
    • ISBN13: 9780844667515
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    • Aug-1997
    • Buccaneer Books
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1568496869
    • ISBN13: 9781568496863
    • Library Binding
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    • Aug-2010
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307762505
    • ISBN13: 9780307762504
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    • Aug-2010
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743291299
    • ISBN13: 9781743291290
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    • Dec-2010
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0330475002
    • ISBN13: 9780330475006



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