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An American classic, The Orchard Keeper may be the first book by among America's best, most famous novelists.  Set is just a small, remote community in rural Tennessee in the decades between your two world wars, it informs of John Wesley Rattner, a boy, and Marion Sylder, an outlaw and bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of these, has murdered the boy's father.  Together with Rattner's Dad Ather, who goes to a former era in his communion with nature and his stoic self-reliance, they enact a crisis that seems born of the property itself.  All three are characters of a powerful and persuasive party Of ideals dropped to industrialization and time.