In the Tennessee Country

In 1916, a young boy, Nathan Longfort, is on the funeral train bearing the body of his grandfather, the Senator, from Washington, D.C., to Knoxville, Tennessee. The memory of this journey will haunt him for the rest of his life. On this trip, he meets the enigmatic Cousin Aubrey, a man of irregular kinship, the black sheep of the Longfort clan. As the years pass, and Aubrey disappears into the world, Nathan begins to compulsively collect rumors about his faraway life--as Nathan's mother's first true love, a charmer of European society, a Don Juan, a worldly success--and sees it in stinging contrast to his own unfulfilled dreams of becoming an artist. Much later in life, the two men--now old--will meet again.

Author: Peter Taylor
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 07/15/1995
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.51w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780312135218

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 09/24/1995 pg. 40
New York Times 12/03/1995 pg. 88
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 01/01/1995 pg. 88
Publishers Weekly 08/07/1995

About the Author

Peter Taylor, the author of eight story collections, including The Old Forest and Other Stories (Picador) and three novels, including A Summons to Memphis, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and A Woman of Means (Picador), died in 1994. A Tennessee native, he had lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife, poet Eleanor Ross Taylor.

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