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An edition of Taps (2001)

Taps

a novel

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"It is 1951 when sixteen-year-old Swayze Barksdale watches the young men of Fisk's Landing, Mississippi, march off to a faraway place called Korea. Too young to serve overseas, Swayze is soon called to unexpected duty at home: a local boy is an early casualty of the war, and Swayze is enlisted to play "Taps" at his graveside. Gradually, Swayze begins to pace his life around these all too frequent funerals, where his horn sounds the tragic note of the times.".

"Still, life in Fisk's Landing goes on, with its comforting rhythms, hilarious mishaps, moments of pure joy. Young love blossoms, age-old hatreds flare. Eccentric characters help shepherd Swayze into adulthood and teach him what it means to be a patriot, a son, a lover, a friend. Ultimately, when "Taps" is played for someone he holds very dear, Swayze learns what it means to be a man."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Language
English
Pages
340

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Subjects

Teenage boys, Bildungsromans, Fiction, American Participation, Korean War, 1950-1953, Fiction, general, Mississippi, fiction, Korean war, 1950-1953, fiction, Military participation, American, Fiction, historical, general

Places

Delta (Miss. : Region), Mississippi

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Taps: A Novel
April 8, 2002, Mariner Books
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Cover of: Taps
Taps: a novel
2001, Houghton Mifflin
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Cover of: Taps
Taps: A Novel
April 16, 2001, Houghton Mifflin
in English
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Published in
Boston
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3563.O8745 T36 2001, PS3563.O8745T36 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
340 p. ;
Number of pages
340

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6796548M
Internet Archive
tapsnovel00morr
ISBN 10
0618098593
LCCN
00068250
OCLC/WorldCat
45582587
Library Thing
510496
Goodreads
1987909

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WE WERE flatland people, each of us in this little long-ago tale: Luke and Amanda and Durley, Georgia and Arch and myself, Potter and Godbold and all the others.
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