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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
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Families are not simply made up of blood relations; this Ann Patchett understands better than most. John Nickel used to be a jazz drummer, but now runs a bar in Memphis, Tennessee; the mother of his son has taken the boy away, to unimaginable Florida; Nickel is left to find family where he can. What he finds are the Tafts: Fay and Carl, sister and brother, adrift in Memphis after the death of their father, the Taft of the title. Nickel gives Fay a job as a waitress; twice her age, black when she is white, he is torn by the nature of his feelings for her, drifting uneasily as they do between fatherly and sensual.
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As in her later novel, The Magician's Assistant, the spiritual motor of the novel is a character dead at its beginning: Taft, the absent father. Bereft of his own son, Nickel conjures Taft as the perfect father to children lost without him. But this is a darker novel, its ending less hopeful--less magical, though Patchett's prose is wonderfully beguiling--but perhaps more truthful for that.--Erica Wagner
'As resonant as a blues song ... Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett's fiction.' -- New York Times
'Taft shows the author's skill at putting herself - and her readers - in another skin ... Her skill is simply extraordinary.' -- Erica Wagner, The Times
'The emotional ties are so taut that the merest touch from Patchett sets everything jangling. A marvellously understated book.' -- Guardian
'Taft shows the author's skill at putting herself - and her readers - in another skin ... Her skill is simply extraordinary.' -- Erica Wagner, The Times
'The emotional ties are so taut that the merest touch from Patchett sets everything jangling. A marvellously understated book.' -- Guardian
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- PublisherHarper Perennial
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0547521898
- ISBN 13 9780547521893
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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