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Description for The Summons
Paperback. For the first time since "A Time to Kill", Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi - a place rich in colourful characters and dark family secrets. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153. . Clean copy. Good to very good
Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over local law and politics for many years. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of the family estate. Ray reluctantly heads south, but the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and ... Read more
Ray Atlee, a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, is forty-three and newly single. His father, a very sick old man who lives the life of a recluse in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi, was once a beloved and powerful official who towered over local law and politics for many years. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of the family estate. Ray reluctantly heads south, but the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Century
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712684361
SKU
KST0016725
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Ref
99-1
About John. Grisham
John Grisham is the author of twenty-two novels, one work of non-fiction, a collection of short stories, and a novel for young readers. He is on the Board of Directors of the Innocence Project in New York and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He ... Read more
Reviews for The Summons
"Classic Grisham"
Times
"John Grisham is a copper-bottomed promise of reliable story-telling. The legal trappings are as persuasive as ever"
Independent
"Smooth, tough and addictive"
Mirror
"No one tells a story better than Grisham"
Evening Standard
"Compelling"
Time Literary Supplement
Times
"John Grisham is a copper-bottomed promise of reliable story-telling. The legal trappings are as persuasive as ever"
Independent
"Smooth, tough and addictive"
Mirror
"No one tells a story better than Grisham"
Evening Standard
"Compelling"
Time Literary Supplement