A Summons to Memphis is a novel by Peter Taylor which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in It is the recollection of Phillip Carver, a middle aged editor from New York City, who is summoned back to Memphis by his two conniving unmarried sisters to help them prevent the marriage of their elderly father to a younger woman. A Summons to Memphis Summary. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of “A Summons to Memphis” by Peter Taylor. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. A Summons to Memphis is a historical novel by . A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) Share: Twitter Facebook Email. Finalists. Nominated as finalists in Fiction in Paradise, by Donald Barthelme (G.P. Putnam's Sons) Whites, by Norman Rush (Alfred A. Knopf) The Jury. The Jury. .
A Summons to Memphis (Mass Market Paperback) Published August 12th by Ballantine Books. Mass Market Paperback, pages. Author (s): Peter Taylor. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Author Info: Peter Taylor. Enjoying this book depends greatly on a capacity to feel empathy for the epic tragedy involved in a family moving from Nashville to Memphis. Don't worry; I didn't feel it either. Side by side with a healthy conservatism, the American South was plagued in the years following the Civil War by a retrograde. A summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor, , Ballantine edition, in English - 1st Ballantine books ed.
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 s. Peter Taylor was born in Tennessee in He was the author of seven books of stories, including The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor, A Long Fourth, In the Miro District and Other Stories and The Old Forest and Other Stories (which won the Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction in ); three novels including A Summons to Memphis (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in ); and three books. A Summons to Memphis, by Peter Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf) Share: Twitter Facebook Email. Finalists. Nominated as finalists in Fiction in Paradise, by Donald.
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