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In the Tennessee Country

A Novel

Author: Peter Taylor

In the Tennessee Country

In the Tennessee Country

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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...

Page Count
208
On Sale
07/15/1995

Book Details

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 old—will meet again.

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Picador

ISBN

9780312135218

In The News

“It moves at the unruffled pace of a lazy evening's front-porch storytelling . . . each sentence is not merely richly polished but leads to deep veins of hidden meaning.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“One of the great joys of reading Taylor is that you find yourself quickly and willingly seduced by the elegance of language and eye for detail in his writing.” —San Francisco Chronicle

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In the Tennessee Country

In the Tennessee Country

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