false 57251897 1472850 463382 0679728724 9780679728726 22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664081m/463382.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223664081s/463382.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/463382.The_Orchard_Keeper 3.41 133 The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by one of America's finest, most celebrated novelists.  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.  Together with Rattner's Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence, they 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.]]> 4178 4.00 104455 20906 1965 1 0 false Sat Aug 08 20:00:15 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 09:14:01 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 20:00:15 -0700 2009