Listen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.comID: 177864Title: Orchard KeeperAuthor: Cormac McCarthyNarrator: Ed SalaFormat: UnabridgedLength: 08:09:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 06-14-13Publisher: Recorded BooksGenres: Fiction & Literature, Literary FictionSummary:The acclaimed first novel from one of Americas most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 boys father.The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Syldertogether with Rattners Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independenceenact 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 couldnt muster or wouldnt dare.The Boston GlobeContact: [email protected]

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