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