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Families are not simply made up of blood relations; this Ann Patchett understands better than most. John Nickel used to be a jazz drummer, but now runs a bar in Memphis, Tennessee; the mother of his son has taken the boy away, to unimaginable Florida; Nickel is left to find family where he can. What he finds are the Tafts: Fay and Carl, sister and brother, adrift in Memphis after the death of their father, the Taft of the title. Nickel gives Fay a job as a waitress; twice her age, black when she is white, he is torn by the nature of his feelings for her, drifting uneasily as they do between fatherly and sensual.

As in her later novel, The Magician's Assistant, the spiritual motor of the novel is a character dead at its beginning: Taft, the absent father. Bereft of his own son, Nickel conjures Taft as the perfect father to children lost without him. But this is a darker novel, its ending less hopeful--less magical, though Patchett's prose is wonderfully beguiling--but perhaps more truthful for that.--Erica Wagner
 
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Hardback Editions

March 2001 : Library Binding
Cover of ISBN: 0613175441Title: Taft
Author(s): Ann Patchett
ISBN: 0-613-17544-1 / 978-0-613-17544-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Bt Bound
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April 1996 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0395694612Title: Taft
Author(s): Ann Patchett
ISBN: 0-395-69461-2 / 978-0-395-69461-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
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1994 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000NYCHEATitle: TAFT.
Author(s): Ann. Patchett
Publisher: Hougton Mifflin,
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Paperback Editions

September 2007 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0061339229Title: Taft: A Novel (P.S.)
Author(s): Ann Patchett
ISBN: 0-06-133922-9 / 978-0-06-133922-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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April 2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1841150495Title: Taft
Author(s): Ann Patchett
ISBN: 1-84115-049-5 / 9781841150499 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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March 2003 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0060540761Title: Taft
Author(s): Ann Patchett
ISBN: 0-06-054076-1 / 978-0-06-054076-0 (USA edition)
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade
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April 1999 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 034543353XTitle: Taft
Author(s): Ann Patchett
ISBN: 0-345-43353-X / 978-0-345-43353-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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August 1995 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0804113882Title: Taft
Author(s): Ann Patchett
ISBN: 0-8041-1388-2 / 978-0-8041-1388-5 (USA edition)
Publisher: Ivy Books
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1994 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000IB9RIWTitle: TAFT
Author(s): ANN PATCHETT
Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN BOSTON
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