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.
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