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EDITOR'S CHOICE FICTION O-ZONE, Paul Theroux -- PECKHAM'S MARBLES, Peter De Vries -- PERFUME, Patrick Suskind -- THE PRINCE OF TIDES, Pat Conroy -- A SUMMONS TO MEMPHIS, Peter Taylor -- A TASTE FOR DEATH, P.D. James NONFICTION EISENHOWER: AT WAR 1943-1945, David Eisenhower -- GOING SOLO, Roald Dahl MY FATHER, MY...
A Summons to Memphis
PETER TAYLOR, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1985, has written a novel to make critics feel their tremendous responsibility. How can the reviewer force his reader to understand that A Summons to Memphis, this sharply perceptive, humorous novel of only 200 pages, should be read at once? How can...
So the reviewer resorts to a list of persuasive reasons in order to convince. For those who read to escape a stifling environment, A Summons to Memphis explores the modern cities of Nashville and Memphis from the perspective of a relocated Tennessean in Manhattan. Taylor creates a dynamic representation of...
Finally, for the pressured reader in search of humor, A Summons to Memphis provides it. The comedy is situational, two spinster sisters preventing their octagenerian father from remarrying; descriptive, this same eccentric duo frequenting nightclubs, dressed in sequined, clingy, front-and-back plunging fashions; and double-edged, undercut by a...