Taft

Name: Taft
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Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780061339226

by Unknown Author

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272 pages2007Harper PerennialISBN 9780061339226

Fiction Race relations Fathers and sons African American musicians African American jazz musicians Father-son relationship General Waitresses Father and child Brothers and sisters Bars (Drinking establishments)Employees Tennessee, fiction Fiction, general Fathers and sons, fiction Musicians, fiction

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<p>John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is taken away from him, he's left with nothing but the Memphis bar he manages. Then he hires Fay, a young white waitress, who has a volatile brother named Carl in tow. Nickel finds himself consumed with the idea of Taft -- Fay and Carl's dead father -- and begins to reconstruct the life of a man he never met. But his sympathies for these lost souls soon take him down a twisting path into the lives of strangers...

Publication Details

Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2007
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780061339226
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California, and moved with her family to Nashville, Tennessee at age six. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 1990, during a residential fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, which was named a New York Times Notable Book for 1992. Her second novel, Taft (1994), was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction. Her fourth novel, Bel Canto (2001), won the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize, and sold over a million copies in the United States. Her memoir, Truth & Beauty, which chronicled her relationship with Lucy Grealy during Grealy's death from cancer, was published in 2004. She was the editor for Best American Short Stories 2006.