num_pages: 246
description: The acclaimed first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–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 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.Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris .
language: English
title: The Orchard Keeper
titlecomplete: The Orchard Keeper
characters: Arthur Ownby, Marion Sylder, John Wesley Rattner
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Southern Gothic, Southern, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 10331
places: Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: -126201600000
name: William Faulkner Foundation Award
publisher: Vintage Books