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The Orchard Keeper


A Literary Fiction Novel

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The acclaimed first novel from one of America's most celebrated novelists.

Set in 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.

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