A Summons to Memphis

Name: A Summons to Memphis
Author: Peter Taylor

by Peter Taylor

Novel about an adult son's return home to face his past

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Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor was the supreme chronicler of middle Tennessee society, writing with quiet authority about the conflicts between old and new in Southern upper-middle-class life. He won the Pulitzer Prize for A Summons to Memphis late in his career.

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