Taps: A Novel - Hardcover

Morris, Willie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618098593 ISBN 13: 9780618098590

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Swayze Barksdale watches from his Mississippi Delta front lawn as the tow's young men go off into the army, and when he is called to unexpected duty himself, his life becomes filled with funerals and the trajic note of the times.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"Willie Morris's last book may be his truest...a very knowing look at small town life in the 1950s." --DAVID HALBERSTAM

"Willie Morris lived a grand legacy, daily. His generous spirit nourished many young writers, and those who were not struck down in awe to know him directly had his first book, North Toward Home, and now have his last, Taps, as guides through life, through the thick and thin and the whole vivid, splendid glory of it that Willie Morris loved. This book is outstanding." --KAYE GIBBONS

"Lush, eloquent, sharply rendered in its details, a novel of great warmth and sensitivity." --DONNA TARTT

"Taps is a touching, beautiful story, told as only a master can tell it, with enduring passion and warmth." --WINSTON GROOM

About the Author:

Willie Morris is the author of North Toward Home, New York Days, My Dog Skip, My Cat Spit McGee, and numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction. As the imaginative and creative editor of Harper’s Magazine in the 1960s, he published such writers as William Styron, Gay Talese, David Halberstam, and Norman Mailer, and he was a major influence in changing our postwar literary and journalistic history. He died in August 1999 at the age of sixty-four.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0618098593
• ISBN 13: 9780618098590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352