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.
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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
    •  
    • Jan-2010
    • Picador (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330511254
    • ISBN13: 9780330511254
    •  
    • Dec-1965
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394439368
    • ISBN13: 9780394439365
    •  
    • 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
    •  
    • Aug-2010
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743291299
    • ISBN13: 9781743291290
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    • Dec-2010
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0330475002
    • ISBN13: 9780330475006



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