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Book Review of A Summons to Memphis

A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis
Author: Peter Taylor
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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When Phillip Carver receives on a lonely Sunday evening, two successive calls from his sisters, begging him to leave his home in Manhatten and return immediately to Memphis, he is slow to agree. His sisters, middle-aged and unmarried want his help in averting the remarriage of their father, an elderly widower. Although Phillip wants no part in such manipulations, he finds himself unable to refuse to make the trip South....and into his own past....