Summons to Memphis Pulitzer Prize Winner

Name: Summons to Memphis Pulitzer Prize Winner
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ISBN: 9780375701177

ISBN-10: 0375701176

ISBN-13: 9780375701177

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter Taylor

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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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Peter Taylor was the author of eight story collections and three novels, including A Summons to Memphis, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 1994.