Taft
246 pages
|Published: 1 Oct 1994
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ISBN: 9780060540760
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harpperen
Publication date: 18 March 2003
Description
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...
