num_pages: 209
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Summons to Memphis
titlecomplete: A Summons to Memphis
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Southern, Literary Fiction, Novels, American Fiction, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 6391
places: Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Vintage