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Book Synopsis A Summons to Memphis by : Peter Taylor
Download or read book A Summons to Memphis written by Peter Taylor and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1999-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most celebrated novels of its time, the Pulitzer Prize winner A Summons to Memphis introduces the Carver family, natives of Nashville, residents, with the exception of Phillip, of Memphis, Tennessee. During the twilight of a Sunday afternoon in March, New York book editor Phillip Carver receives an urgent phone call from each of his older, unmarried sisters. They plead with Phillip to help avert their widower father's impending remarriage to a younger woman. Hesitant to get embroiled in a family drama, he reluctantly agrees to go back south, only to discover the true motivation behing his sisters' concern. While there, Phillip is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and flood of memories from this troubled past. Peter Taylor is one of the masters of Southern literature, whose work stands in the company of Eudora Walty, James Agee, and Walker Percy. 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.
Book Synopsis A Summons to Memphis by : Peter Taylor
Download or read book A Summons to Memphis written by Peter Taylor and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Phillip Carver is asked by his sisters to help avert their widower father's impending marriage to a younger woman, he is forced to confront his domineering siblings, a controlling patriarch, and a flood of memories from his deeply troubled past.
Book Synopsis A Summons to Memphis by : Peter Taylor
Download or read book A Summons to Memphis written by Peter Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unmarried, middle-aged children of a charming elderly widower attempt to foil his plans to remarry.
Book Synopsis In the Tennessee Country by : Peter Taylor
Download or read book In the Tennessee Country written by Peter Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-07-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying his grandfather's body on the train ride to its final resting place, young Nathan Longford meets his enigmatic and eccentric cousin Aubrey, an encounter that is to haunt Nathan throughtout his lifetime.
Download or read book Foreign Affairs written by Alison Lurie and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s folk rhymes—earns little respect from her fellow scholars. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would never have viewed as a potential romantic partner. In a Western-cut suit and a rawhide tie, he is a sanitary engineer from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on a group tour. He’s the very opposite of her type, but before Vinnie knows it, she’s spending more and more time with him. Also in London is Vinnie’s colleague, a young, handsome English professor whose marriage and self-esteem are both on the rocks. But Fred Turner is also about to find consolation—in the arms of the most beautiful actress in England. Stylish and highborn, she introduces Fred to a glamorous, yet eccentric, London scene that he never expected to encounter. The course of these two relationships makes up the story of Foreign Affairs—a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award as well as a Pulitzer Prize winner, and an entertaining, poignant tale from the author of The War Between the Tates and The Last Resort, “one of this country’s most able and witty novelists” (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alison Lurie including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
Book Synopsis The Old Forest and Other Stories by : Peter Taylor
Download or read book The Old Forest and Other Stories written by Peter Taylor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-08-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen tales of domestic life in the south during the thirties and forties.
Book Synopsis Summons to Memphis by : Peter Taylor
Download or read book Summons to Memphis written by Peter Taylor and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1987-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A middle-aged man living in New York returns home to Memphis to deal with a family crisis.
Book Synopsis The White Rose of Memphis by : William Clark Falkner
Download or read book The White Rose of Memphis written by William Clark Falkner and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a story of the Mississippi River South in its great days of the steamboat era, by one of its most distinguished citizens. Colonel Falkner, great-grandfather of William Faulkner, Nobel-prize novelist of our time, was a plantation owner, railroad builder, Civil War hero, writer and founder of schools. The White Rose of Memphis, first published in 1881, was the Gone with the Wind of that period; edition after edition kept appearing until about the time of World War I, when it went out of print; since then it has been unobtainable and legendary."--Publishers's description
Book Synopsis Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis by : Walter Burkert
Download or read book Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis written by Walter Burkert and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C. In concise and inviting fashion, Walter Burkert lays out the essential evidence for this ongoing reinterpretation of Greek culture. In particular, he points to the critical role of the development of writing in the ancient Near East, from the achievement of cuneiform in the Bronze Age to the rise of the alphabet after 1000 B.C. From the invention and diffusion of alphabetic writing, a series of cultural encounters between "Oriental" and Greek followed. Burkert details how the Assyrian influences of Phoenician and Anatolian intermediaries, the emerging fascination with Egypt, and the Persian conquests in Ionia make themselves felt in the poetry of Homer and his gods, in the mythic foundations of Greek cults, and in the first steps toward philosophy. A journey through the fluid borderlines of the Near East and Europe, with new and shifting perspectives on the cultural exchanges these produced, this book offers a clear view of the multicultural field upon which the Greek heritage that formed Western civilization first appeared.
Book Synopsis Now in November by : Josephine Winslow Johnson
Download or read book Now in November written by Josephine Winslow Johnson and published by New York : Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1934 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long drought brings hardship to the Haldemarnes as they struggle to wrest a living from their small farm.
Download or read book Last Orders written by Graham Swift and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham Swift's most poignant exploration of the complexity and courage of ordinary lives.Celebrating 40 years of outstanding international writing, this is one of the essential Picador novels reissued in a beautiful new series style.
Download or read book Spartina written by John D. Casey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1989 National Book Award A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea. Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished in his back yard. Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himself taking a foolish, dangerous risk. But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at sea in order to keep his dream alive. Moving and poetic, Spartina is a masterly story of one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world.
Download or read book The Sunday Wife written by Cassandra King and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife. When her husband is assigned to a larger and more demanding community in the Florida panhandle, Dean becomes fast friends with Augusta Holderfield, a woman whose good looks and extravagant habits immediately entrance her. As their friendship evolves, Augusta challenges Dean to break free from her traditional role as the preacher's wife. Just as Dean is questioning everything she has always valued, a tragedy occurs, providing the catalyst for change in ways she never could have imagined.
Book Synopsis Elbow Room by : James Alan McPherson
Download or read book Elbow Room written by James Alan McPherson and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1986-10-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful collection of short stories that explores blacks and whites today, Elbow Room is alive with warmth and humor. Bold and very real, these twelve stories examine a world we all know but find difficult to define. Whether a story dashes the bravado of young street toughs or pierces through the self-deception of a failed preacher, challenges the audacity of a killer or explodes the jealousy of two lovers, James Alan McPherson has created an array of haunting images and memorable characters in an unsurpassed collection of honest, masterful fiction.
Book Synopsis Ford County: Stories by : John Grisham
Download or read book Ford County: Stories written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill. This riveting collection of short stories features an unforgettable cast of characters: Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons embark on a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit Inez’s youngest son, Raymond—on death row. A hard-drinking, low-grossing divorce lawyer fed up with his wife, his life, and the law plans a drastic escape after an unexpected phone call. A quiet, unassuming data collector sets out to bring down a flashy casino owner with his skill at blackjack—as payback for the theft of his wife. A stalker hunts victims in a retirement home, a lawyer confronts a vengeful adversary from the past, and a young man from a prominent family is driven off by scandal and fear—but finds unexpected redemption on the wrong side of the tracks. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Download or read book The Last Juror written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!
Download or read book God Knows written by Joseph Heller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-11-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Biblical David lies on his death-bed he looks back on his own, crowded life and tells all.
