The acclaimed first novel from one of America s most celebrated novelists the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 boy s father. The boy John Wesley Rattner and the outlaw Marion Sylder-together with Rattner s Uncle Ather who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independence-enact 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. Look for Cormac McCarthy s latest bestselling novels The Passenger and Stella Maris.