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A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS.
by Taylor, Peter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394410629
- ISBN 13
- 9780394410623
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
NY: KNOPF.. Fine. 1986. First Edition. Cloth. 0394410629 . Fine in a close to fine dj. (Hint of shelfwear at base of spine on dj.) Pulitzer Prize winner. (B) .
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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- Bookseller
- Waverley Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28762
- Title
- A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS.
- Author
- Taylor, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0394410629
- ISBN 13
- 9780394410623
- Publisher
- KNOPF.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- 0394410629, Modern Fiction/southern Literature/peter Taylor/pulitzer Prize Winners/218
- Bookseller catalogs
- List161; List174; List175;
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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