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A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis | Peter Hillsman 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 behind his sisters' concern. While there, Phillip is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a 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 composed a richly evocative story of revenge resolution, and redemption, and gave us a classic work of American literature.
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A Summons to Memphis | Peter Hillsman Taylor
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Starting another #pulitzerprize winner.

Kaye How was this one or are you still reading it ? One I‘ve always meant to get to. 6y
KellyHunsakerReads @Kaye I liked it. The characters are quite real. 6y
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This was the 1987 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction. A saga about a family fleeing genteel Nashville society for Memphis after the father is disgraced from being swindled by a business colleague. Father, mother, and their four children subsequently define their lives by this event and their obsession over all of the ways in which they believe their lives in Nashville were superior.

Lcsmcat Stacking! 6y
Miss_Kim I‘m looking for my next Pulitzer read! Thanks for the tip 😊 6y
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Gittelbooks
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Picked this up at a used book store in rural MA. Had never heard of title or author. Yet it's a Pulitzer Prize winner. And deservedly so. Story of southern family manipulated by a father unlike any other. Not abusive in traditional sense, he nevertheless sets out to undermine the lives of his children for his own aggrandizement. Unusual, beautifully written & supremely satisfying. Gives revenge an entirely new cast.