The Orchard Keeper

The Orchard Keeper is the first novel by the American novelist Cormac McCarthy.

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Novel - Cormac McCarthy

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Like all McCarthy's fiction, it has been heavily influenced by William Faulkner, probably more so than any of his other works.

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The novel is set in a small, isolated community in Tennessee, during the inter-war period. It is the story of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Slyder, an outlaw and bootlegger, who has killed Rattner's father, a fact to which both are oblivious.

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Tennessee - Outlaw - Bootlegger

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