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The Orchard Keeper
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Narrator
- Ed Sala
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 14 June 2013
- Run Time
- 8 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
“McCarthy has a voice that is unmistakably his own … with a passion most writers couldn’t muster or wouldn’t dare.”—The Boston Globe
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Details
- Author
- Cormac McCarthy
- Narrator
- Ed Sala
- Duration
- 8 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 June 2013
- ISBN
- 9781470337117
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
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.“McCarthy has a voice that is unmistakably his own … with a passion most writers couldn’t muster or wouldn’t dare.”—The Boston Globe
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