McCarthys first novel reissued in Picador, to coincide with the UK film release of The Road Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early classic from one of America’s finest and most celebrated authors. It tells of John Wesley Rattner, a young boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger wh McCarthys first novel reissued in Picador, to coincide with the UK film release of The Road Set in a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, The Orchard Keeper is an early classic from one of America’s finest and most celebrated authors. 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. Cormac McCarthys debut novel is a magnificent evocation of an American landscape, and of a lost American time. ‘The feeling for the land and seasons is so intense as to be part of the story and there are scenes one will never forget . . . A complicated and evocative exposition of the transience of life’ Harper’s ‘A true American original’ Newsweek About The Author: Cormac McCarthy is the author of ten acclaimed novels, most recently The Road . Among his honours are the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for lifetime achievement in American literature.