The acclaimed first novel from one of Americaâs most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning novel The Road âą 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 boyâs father.
The boy, John Wesley Rattner, and the outlaw, Marion Sylderâtogether with Rattnerâs Uncle Ather, who belongs to a former age in his communion with nature and his stoic independenceâenact 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.
âMcCarthy has a voice that is unmistakably his own ⊠with a passion most writers couldnât muster or wouldnât dare.ââThe Boston Globe
