false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170545514m/60737.jpg 60737 8 Peter Taylor is well-known as a masterful writer of short stories set in the old South; not the well-explored South of explosive passions, but an urban world of faded gentility and empty custom. In his almost Jamesian evocations of the mannered upper classes in his native Tennessee, he neither romanticizes nor reviles, but meticulously observes, revealing the patterns of social behavior that leave the individual at the mercy of a relentless past. In this, only the second novel of his long career and the winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Taylor weaves a rich social web in telling the story of one family's stark social decline, symbolized by a move from Nashville to Memphis, and of the consequences through the years and down the generations. 59093 29 6 1986 A Summons to Memphis total:348|5:52|4:120|3:99|2:59|1:18| 348 1173 579 58 2 2 false false Mon Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Mon Feb 11 08:07:17 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 08:07:17 -0800 2008
This is not to say A Summons to Memphis, Taylor's first ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 13:57:18 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 13:57:18 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 09:33:22 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 29 07:27:52 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 13:01:27 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 20 13:02:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 17:25:10 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 14:03:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 13:45:56 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 10:05:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 19:01:50 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 08:11:36 -0700 2009 The Optimist's Daughter. I wasn't floored by that novel either, but at least the protagonist's emotional outbursts at the end of that novel gave me some sort of emotional connection to the plot; Taylor's did not. Indeed, his controlled and clinical account of his deali...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Dec 05 07:44:11 -0800 2008 Sat Jun 20 15:49:06 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 01 09:46:14 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 30 15:08:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 21 10:15:58 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 10:22:23 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 12:11:25 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 12:14:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 15:10:24 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 10:53:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 15:15:18 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 15:22:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 07 15:52:44 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 15:57:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 11:05:53 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 19:41:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Apr 23 08:06:38 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 08:08:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Mar 30 07:18:24 -0700 2007 Fri Mar 30 07:41:06 -0700 2007
There's an intense focus to the style of the writing tha...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 07:44:28 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 23:48:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Mar 05 10:49:04 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 10:51:54 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Sat Feb 14 04:50:25 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 04:55:10 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=60737