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Can I read Taps : a Novel on EtoBox?
Taps : a Novel by Willie Morris; JoAnne Pritchard Morris; David Rae Morris is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Taps : a Novel about?
"A Mariner book." 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
Who reads Taps : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Willie Morris; JoAnne Pritchard Morris; David Rae Morris
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780618219025
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.95 / 5 (228 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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