Word: summonses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
A Summons to Memphis
A Summons to Memphis lives up to its introduction and its author's renown. The story of grown children locked in polite, civil warfare with a tyrannical father is genuinely funny. And the setting offers a leisurely look at the geography that has emerged patchwork from Taylor's stories: the...
The guilty finger in A Summons to Memphis seems to point nearly everywhere. Phillip's dry, punctilious narrative style hardly jibes with his claims to be a doomed romantic hero. Thinking back on the girl in Chattanooga, he remarks, "Surely no life was ever so quickly and completely transformed by...
A book filled with such inveterate egotists as the Carver clan ought not to be much fun. Yet A Summons to Memphis radiates tolerant good humor. For all of Phillip's flaws, he is a keen observer, witty monologist and an adept at anecdotes. He recalls, for example, the fate...
One first-night critic politely pronounced that the lead achieved a "healthy mediocrity, as did the rest of the cast." Of course, there was nothing middling about security for the opening at Haddo House, a Scottish village hall not far from the royal summer retreat of Balmoral. The star of...