Taps : a novel / Willie Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Willie.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Korean War, 1950-1953--Participation, American--Fiction.

Korean War, 1950-1953.

Delta (Miss. : Region)--Fiction.

Delta (Miss. : Region).

Teenage boys--Fiction.

Teenage boys.

Mississippi--Fiction.

Mississippi.

Military participation--American.

Mississippi--Delta (Region).

Genre:

Fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

340 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Mariner books edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Summary:

The final work from one of America's most beloved authors and an instant classic, TAPS takes readers on one last fictional journey to Willie Morris's South and spins a tender, powerful, very American story about the vanishing beauty of a charmed way of life and the fleeting boyhood of a young man coming of age in a time of war. In Fisk"s Landing, Mississippi, at the dawn of the Korean War, sixteen-year-old Swayze Barksdale is suddenly called to an unexpected duty - playing "Taps" at the gravesides of the town"s young casualties sent home from the front. Gradually, Swayze begins to pace his life around these all too frequent funerals, where his horn sounds the tragic note of the times. At turns funny, at turns poignant, TAPS abounds with colorful characters and yet "sings and sighs . . . with a kind of minor key wistfulness" (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette) as Swayze learns what it means to be a patriot, a son, a lover, a friend, a man.

Notes:

"A Mariner book."

ISBN:

0618219021

9780618219025

OCLC:

49695882