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Title	:	A Summons to Memphis
Author	:	Peter Taylor
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 209 pages
Published	:	June 29th 1999 by Vintage (first published June 29th 1986)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. American. Southern. Literary Fiction. Classics. Literature. Modern

A Summons to Memphis

Peter Taylor

Paperback | Pages: 209 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 5696 Users | 348 Reviews

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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 behind his sisters' concern. While there, Phillip is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and flood of memories from his troubled past.

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

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Original Title:	A Summons to Memphis
ISBN:	0375701176 (ISBN13: 9780375701177)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Memphis, Tennessee(United States) Tennessee(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1987), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1986), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1987)

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As the narrator, Phillip Carver, tells his familys story, the author Peter Taylor shows the waning way of life of genteel society in Nashville and Memphis. This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987.The narrators father was born perhaps a generation, maybe two, after slavery on one of the family estates outside of Memphis. The pages on this birth, alone, qualify for the Pulitzer. After Vanderbilt (not Princeton) football and law degree, a partnership takes him to Nashville. He marries appropriate

This book has been recommended to me for years and I am glad I finally read it. I wish I had the option to give it 2.5 stars -- it was really just between "ok" and "liked it" for me. What I really appreciated about this little novel was the author's incredibly accurate social descriptions of Nashville from the perspectives of both an insider and an outsider. The protagonist lived in Nashville until he was 13, then moved to Memphis, and lives in Manhattan as an adult. Similarly, I moved to

This book was incredibly tedious. It was like Holden Caulfield and Charles Dickens had a horrible ugly child. Not only is the style repetitive to the point of frustration, but the narrator is a total pile of crap. He is selfish and completely unaware of anyone else in his life having feelings or desires. He assumes that all the men who accompany his sisters are paid escorts, because who could possibly find middle-aged women attractive. He believes that his sweetheart allowed herself to be sent

This is really a very strong 4.5 rating.I read this book many years ago, but remember nothing of the story at all. I only remember that I loved it, but obviously not why. It may be that it was a completely different book to the much younger Diane. In any case, here's what I think of it now.The title is brilliant, because of the many different connotations of the word summons. Phillip is summoned to Memphis from NY by his sisters when their 81 year old widowed father wants to re-marry. The family

Peter Taylor's Pulitzer Prize winning A Summons to Memphis is an extraordinary piece of literary fiction.The narrator is Phillip Carver, a 49 year old man living in New York City working as an editor and rare books dealer in the mid 1960s. The drama begins when Phillip receives separate telephone calls from his sisters Betsy and Josephine complaining that their 81 year old father has the unthinkable and disgraceful notion to remarry. The crux of the story, however, is the family's history.The

This book won a Pulitzer and the Ritz-Paris Hemingway award. And it proves that I could never be a judge for those.

A college teacher recommended this book to me over 20 years ago but I just got around to reading it and I'm glad I did. To begin with I thoroughly enjoyed his sentence construction and very good grammer. In that respect it was a pleasure to read. I will have to admit that for awhile the story seemed a little tedious to me because it took him so long to tell us something and then he would repeat it more than once but in a little different context. At first I thought that this book was just a