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A Summons to Memphis

by Peter Taylor

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Carol Carpenter, August 20, 2012 (view all comments by Carol Carpenter)
A beautiful book; a masterpiece. I have found that, as a general rule, writers who are best known for short stories write good novels, but not great ones. A Summons to Memphis is certainly an exception. As Peter Taylor is one of the best short story writers in the world, you wouldn't expect that he could sustain that fine observational skill that creates such wonderful stories over the course of a novel, but he does. While perhaps the novel seems repetitive to some, I would say it is necessarily meditative--a word that is often overused in describing fiction, but which fits here.

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kati.stevens, May 15, 2010 (view all comments by kati.stevens)
One would imagine this brief Pulitzer-winning book about the consequences of parents meddling in their children's love lives would be more dramatic. Instead, the novel depicts a realistic portrait of a Tennessee family that neither shocks or attempts to bowl the reader over with great, forced emotion. While the redundancies that riddle the first half of the book may be argued a stylistic choice, they can be a bit aggravating.

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Product Details

ISBN:

9780375701177

Author:

Taylor, Peter

Publisher:

Vintage Books USA

Location:

New York :

Subject:

General

Subject:

Literary

Subject:

Fiction

Subject:

Family

Subject:

Tennessee

Subject:

Domestic fiction

Subject:

Memphis

Subject:

Memphis (Tenn.)

Subject:

Literature-A to Z

Copyright:

1999

Edition Description:

Trade paper

Series:

Vintage International (Paperback)

Series Volume:

IMS-10

Publication Date:

19990631

Binding:

TRADE PAPER

Grade Level:

General/trade

Language:

English

Pages:

224

Dimensions:

8.02x5.20x.72 in. .52 lbs.

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Product details 224 pages Vintage Books USA - 1999-09-01 English 9780375701177 Reviews:

"Review" by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, "We finish the novel feeling we've not only come to know his characters, but also come to share their inner truths."

"Review" by The Philadelphia Inquirer, "A Summons to Memphis is like a leisurely port wine sipped slowly and with pleasure beneath a blackjack oak."

"Review" by The New York Times Book Review, "A beautiful ironic novel. Peter Taylor's fiction is full of rewards."

"Review" by The Washington Post Book World, "Something of a miracle....[A Summons to Memphis] is a work that manages to summarize and embody its author's entire career."