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 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.
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
A Summons to Memphis, he composed a richly evocative story of revenge,
resolution, and redemption, and gave us a classic work of American
literature.