The Orchard keeper

<p> Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, <i>The Orchard Keeper</i> is an early classic from one of America’s finest and most celebrated authors. 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. Cormac McCarthy's debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time. </p> <p> ‘The feeling for the land and seasons is so intense as to be part of the story and there are scenes one will never forget . . . A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life’<i> Harper’s</i> </p> <p> ‘A true American original’ <i>Newsweek</i> </p>