Taft - Couverture souple

Patchett, Ann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0547521898 ISBN 13 : 9780547521893

Editeur : Mariner Books, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Patchett Ann

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
Winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award 

"As resonant as a blues song. Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction." — New York Times Book Review

"A moving emblem of fatherhood's rarely explored passion." — Los Angeles Times

"In her picture of Nickel, Patchett combines a rare sensitivity to issues of race with the unswerving knowledge that deeper than skin color is the essential soul of a good man who wants to repair the damage he has done." —New Orleans Times-Picayune 

"Patchett writes with remarkable conviction and attention to telling details." —Jane Smiley

"Taft is a moving, dangerous book about love and despair and hope. Ann Patchett gives us fantastic yet believable characters that will stay alive long after the last page is turned. She is a wonderful, intelligent writer." —James Welch

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Best-selling novelist Ann Patchett’s second, "strikingly original"* novel tells the moving story of John Nickel, an ex–jazz musician who wanted nothing more than to be a good father. When his lover takes away his son, he’s left only with his Beale Street bar. He hires a young waitress named Fay Taft, who brings with her a desperate, dangerous brother, Carl, and the possibility of new intimacy. Nickel finds himself consumed with Fay and Carl’s dead father— Taft—obsessing over and reconstructing the life of a man he never met.

A stunning artistic achievement,

Taft confirms Ann Patchett’s standing as one of the most gifted writers of her generation and reminds us of our deepest instincts to protect the people we love.

*Kirkus Reviews

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0547521898
• ISBN 13: 9780547521893
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288