A Summons to Memphis
by Peter Taylor
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 1986. First Edition . First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a Fine Dust Jacket. Winner of the Pultizer Prize for Fiction.
Synopsis
A Summons to Memphis is a 1986 novel by Peter Taylor which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987. It is the recollection of Phillip Carver, a middle aged editor from New York City, who is summoned back to Memphis by his two conniving unmarried sisters to help them prevent the marriage of their elderly father to a younger woman.
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Details
- Bookseller
- MDS Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000326
- Title
- A Summons to Memphis
- Author
- Peter Taylor
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
Terms of Sale
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- Fine
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