In the Tennessee Country A Novel

Name: In the Tennessee Country A Novel
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ISBN: 9780312135218

ISBN-10: 0312135211

ISBN-13: 9780312135218

Edition: Revised

Authors: Peter Taylor

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In 1916, a young boy, Nathan Longfort, is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he meets the enigmatic Cousin Aubrey, a man of "irregular kinship," the black sheep of the Longfort clan. As the years pass, and Aubrey disappears into the world, Nathan begins to compulsively collect rumors about his faraway life—as Nathan's mother's first true love, a charmer of European society, a Don Juan, a worldly success—and sees it in stinging contrast to his own unfulfilled dreams of becoming an artist. Much later in life, the two men—now…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 7/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.594

Peter Taylor was the author of eight story collections and three novels, including A Summons to Memphis, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1994.