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Taft
by Patchett, Ann
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0395694612
- ISBN 13
- 9780395694619
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. 2d . Hardcover. Fine/Near Very Fine. (2d) Slightly smaller book, brown cloth spine, deep blue boards, pin hole at bottom front spine indentation, gilt lettering and design bright on spine, microtear at bottom of first front end paper near spine, 305 lightly browned pages. DJ glossy with color-illustration of restaurant on front, dark blue back with praise from Beverly Lowry, Jane Smiley for "The Patron Saint of Leas" from Alice McDermott, Los Angeles Times Book Review. DJ has tiny crease at bottom front tip. Near Very Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35217
- Title
- Taft
- Author
- Patchett, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2d
- ISBN 10
- 0395694612
- ISBN 13
- 9780395694619
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- TENNESSEE FICTION FATHERS SONS
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
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About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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