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A Summons to Memphis

By Peter Taylor

By Peter Taylor

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Jun 29, 1999 | ISBN 9780375701177

A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
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Jun 29, 1999 | ISBN 9780375701177

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About A Summons to Memphis

One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphis introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the exception of Phillip, of Memphis, Tennessee.

During the twilight of a Sunday afternoon in March, New York book editor Phillip Carver receives an urgent phone call from each of his older, unmarried sisters. They plead with Phillip to help avert their widower father’s impending remarriage to a younger woman. Hesitant to get embroiled in a family drama, he reluctantly agrees to go back south, only to discover the true motivation behing his sisters’ concern. While there, Phillip is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and flood of memories from this troubled past.

Peter Taylor is one of the masters of Southern literature, whose work stands in the company of Eudora Walty, James Agee, and Walker Percy. In A Summons to Memphis, he composed a richly evocative story of revenge, resolution, and redemption, and gave us a classic work of American literature.

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About Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor has spent nearly forty years working in senior positions in both book and newspaper publishing. Along the way he has penned four books, including The Balder the Better. He lives in Toronto.

Product Details

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback | $16.95
Published by Vintage
Jun 29, 1999 | 224 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375701177
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Praise

"We finish the novel feeling we’ve not only come to know his characters, but also come to share their inner truths." –Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"A beautiful ironic novel. Peter Taylor’s fiction is full of rewards." —The New York Times Book Review

"A Summons to Memphis is like a leisurely port wine sipped slowly and with pleasure beneath a blackjack oak." —The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Something of a miracle…. [A Summons to Memphis] is a work that manages to summarize and embody its author’s entire career." —The Washington Post Book World

Awards

Pulitzer Prize WINNER 1987

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