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A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor Peter Taylor A Summons to Memphis Summary: 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 behind 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. More Fun Stuff! Link to Book Club Guide “Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices Link to Snacks & Sips Menu which one suffered from one’s parents during Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer childhood and youth must be the major part of any Prize for Fiction maturing process. I kept repeating this to myself, as Book Review – “The Family though it were a lesson I would at some future Game was Revenge” by Marilynne Robinson time be accountable for. A certain oblivion was – The New York Times what we must undergo in order to become adults and live peacefully with ourselves.” A Summons to Memphis (Source: Goodreads.com, 2017) .

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