Taft
by:
Ann Patchett (author)
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...
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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...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060540760 (0060540761)
Publish date: March 1st 2003
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 246
Edition language: English
A Girl walked into the bar. What a great opening line. Right away it had me asking questions.This is the fourth Patchett novel I have read and one of her earliest. While not as good as Bel Canto or State of Wonder it is still a very enjoyable read. John Nickel lives in Memphis and is an ex jazz ...
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