 First edition | |
| Author | Peter Taylor |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Alfred A Knopf |
Publication date | October 1986 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 0-394-41062-9 (hardback edition) ISBN 0-345-34660-2 (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 13524488 |
| 813/.54 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3539.A9633 S8 1986 |
A Summons to Memphis is a 1986 novel by Peter Taylor that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1987. It is the recollection of Phillip Carver, a middle aged editor from New York City, who is summoned back to Memphis by his two conniving unmarried sisters to help them prevent the marriage of their elderly father to a younger woman.