Taps for Private Tussie

Kersey, Eleanor, Stuart, Jesse, Gifford, James, Charles, Chuck

ISBN 10: 0945084242 / ISBN 13: 9780945084242

Published by Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Taps for Private Tussie
• Publisher: Jesse Stuart Foundation
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0945084242
• ISBN 13: 9780945084242
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Teenage Sid Tussie sees big changes in his poor Kentucky family when they receive $10,000 insurance money for the death of his uncle in World War II and other greedy relatives scramble to share the wealth.

From the Publisher

Taps for Private Tussie won the Thomas Jefferson Southern Award in 1943, and was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection that year, also. This tale about the Tussie family is a brimming mountain spring of hilarious fun and folklife. Yet never was a book read more eagerly to see what in the world will happen next.

This tale is not just a story of poor white Southern mountaineers on relief. There is something universal about it. It reveals an attitude towards human life and its problems, found in people, places, and times that have no connection with Southern mountaineers.