Taft

Patchett, Ann

ISBN 10 : 0804113882 ISBN 13 : 9780804113885

Editeur : Ivy Books, 1995

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 :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ivy Books
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0804113882
• ISBN 13: 9780804113885
• Reliure: Livre broché