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.

Download File Size:3.27 MB

---