Patchett, Ann

Taft / Ann Patchett - New York : Harper Perennial , 2007, c1994 - 246 p. ; 21 cm

The 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.


English

9780061339226


Fathers and sons----Fiction
African American musicians---Fiction


Memphis (Tenn.)---Fiction

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