The Summons

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ISBN
9780385503822
Book Title
Summons
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Length
9.5 in
Publication Year
2002
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
John Grisham
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Thrillers / Legal, Thrillers / Suspense, Legal
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
352 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385503822
ISBN-13
9780385503822
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1993654

Product Key Features

Book Title
Summons
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Thrillers / Legal, Thrillers / Suspense, Legal
Genre
Fiction
Author
John Grisham
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-058185
Reviews
" The Summons ranks as my absolute favorite in many years...[with] an ending too delicious and morally instructive to give away."-- USA Today "A pleasure to read...a good yarn."-- The Washington Post, " The Summons ranks as my absolute favorite in many years...[with] an ending too delicious and morally instructive to give away." USA Today "A pleasure to read...a good yarn." The Washington Post
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else., #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self--a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray's younger brother, the family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else. Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self--a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray's younger brother, the family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else. Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
LC Classification Number
PS3557.R5355S86

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    The author (the great John Grisham) keeps you entertained, intrigued, and guessing from start to finish. A highly enjoyable and interesting story.

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    I like the book because the story line goes along with previous stories of Grisham's I have read. He uses some of the same people portrayed in his other books. It makes the reader feel you are right at home reading because you know the characters.

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