A summons to memphis is a showcase for taylors virtues. Peter taylors pulitzer prize winning a summons to memphis is an extraordinary piece of literary fiction. Only the second novel in a long and distinguished career, it is a beautifully constructed work, one of those stories that unfolds, at its. Born in 1917, tennessee author peter taylor won the pulitzer prize for this exceptional work of literature. Sign me up for news about peter taylor and more from penguin random house.
A summons to memphis peter taylor, author alfred a. He was the 1987 recipient of the pulitzer prize for fiction. An american author of short stories and novels, he is best known for a summons to memphis. A son, philip carver, living in new york as a collector and seller of antiquarian books, is called back to memphis by his two older, spinster sisters who are trying to prevent their 81year old father from. Books from the library of peter taylor and eleanor ross taylor. Author of happy families are all alike, the collected stories of peter taylor, the oracle at stoneleigh court, the road, and other modern stories, the old forest, in the tennessee country, the widows of thornton, a summons to memphis. A summons to memphis finalist, national book awards 1986 for fiction. In a summons to memphis, he composed a richly evocative story of revenge, resolution, and redemption, and gave us a classic work of american literature. Real life isnt like that, and neither is a summons to memphis. A summons to memphis is a showcase for taylor s virtues.
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Peter taylor, american shortstory writer, novelist, and playwright known for his portraits of tennessee gentry caught in a changing society. A long fourth and other stories a woman of means in the miro district and other stories the old forest and other stories a summons to memphis venus, cupid, folly and time a woman of means miss leonora when last seen. Peter taylor is one of the masters of southern literature, whose work stands in the company of eudora walty, james agee, and walker percy. From 1936 to 1937 taylor attended vanderbilt university, nashville, tennessee, then the center of a southern literary renaissance led by poets allen tate. The narrator is phillip carver, a 49 year old man living in new york city working as an editor and rare books dealer in the mid 1960s.
Peter taylor writing styles in a summons to memphis. It is the recollection of phillip carver, a middle aged. The only pulitzer prizewinner with memphis in the title, peter taylor s 1986 novel explores the fine social distinctions between memphis and nashville at midcentury. The biggest event was when he moved with his parents and siblings to memphis at the age of thirteen. Peter matthew hillsman taylor 19171994 was the author of fiftynine published stories, several plays, and three novels, including a summons to memphis 1986 and the pulitzer prizewinning in the tennessee country 1994.
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