IN THE TENNESSEE COUNTRY. by Taylor, Peter - 1994.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1994.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The last novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, who was born in Tennessee, a story of obsession and of the crossroads in life. "In 1916, a young boy..... 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." 226 pp.