#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self--a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.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, coming soon!
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345531981
ISBN-13
9780345531988
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117266823
Product Key Features
Book Title
Summons : a Novel
Author
John Grisham
Format
Mass Market
Language
English
Topic
Thrillers / Legal, Legal, Thrillers / Suspense
Publication Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.4in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
4.2in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz
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Reviews
"Should you answer this summons? You bet." -New Orleans Times-Picayune "Grisham has grown more comfortable with his voice while expanding its range. . . . The Summons is more than a . . . return to form; it marks out the rich literary territory Grisham has begun to occupy."- Los Angeles Times "A master of the legal suspense thriller." -Richmond-Times Dispatch "A pleasure to read . . . a good yarn." -The Washington Post, "Should you answer this summons? You bet." --New Orleans Times-Picayune "Grisham has grown more comfortable with his voice while expanding its range. . . . The Summons is more than a . . . return to form; it marks out the rich literary territory Grisham has begun to occupy."-- Los Angeles Times "A master of the legal suspense thriller." --Richmond-Times Dispatch "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, "Should you answer this summons? You bet." --New Orleans Times-Picayune "Grisham has grown more comfortable with his voice while expanding its range. . . . The Summons is more than a . . . return to form; it marks out the rich literary territory Grisham has begun to occupy."-- Los Angeles Times "A master of the legal suspense thriller." --Richmond-Times Dispatch "A pleasure to read . . . a good yarn." --The Washington Post