The Orchard Keeper

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Author: Cormac McCarthy

The Orchard Keeper’ 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…..Read More

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