{"product_id":"a-summons-to-memphis-isbn-9780375701177","title":"A Summons to Memphis","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner \u003ci\u003eA Summons   to Memphis\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the   exception of Phillip, of Memphis, Tennessee.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 behing his sisters' concern.  While there, Phillip is forced to confront   his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and flood of memories from this   troubled past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA   Summons to Memphis\u003c\/i\u003e, he composed a richly evocative story of revenge, resolution,   and redemption, and gave us a classic work of American literature.\"We finish the novel feeling we've not only come to know his characters, but also come to share their inner truths.\" --Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A beautiful ironic novel.  Peter Taylor's fiction is full of rewards.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Summons to Memphis\u003c\/i\u003e is like a leisurely port wine sipped slowly and with pleasure beneath a blackjack oak.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Something of a miracle.... [\u003ci\u003eA Summons to Memphis\u003c\/i\u003e] is a work that manages to summarize and embody its author's entire career.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003ePeter Taylor was born in Tennessee in 1917.  He was the author of seven books of stories, including \u003ci\u003eThe Collected Stories of Peter Taylor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Long Fourth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIn the Miro District and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Old Forest and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (which won the Pen\/Faulkner Award for fiction in 1985); three novels including \u003ci\u003eA Summons to Memphis\u003c\/i\u003e (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987); and three books of plays.  Mr. Taylor taught at Harvard University, the University of North Carolina, and Kenyon College, from which he graduated in 1940.  Before his death in 1994, he was Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of Virginia.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305164951781,"sku":"NP9780375701177","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375701177.jpg?v=1767720830","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-summons-to-memphis-isbn-9780375701177","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}