An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America\'s finest, most celebrated novelists.
Together with Rattner\'s Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they enac.
Set is a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, 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.
An American classic, The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America\'s finest, most celebrated novelists