The Summons
Once Judge Alice was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi - a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing 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 eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray`s younger brother, who redefines the notion of a family`s black sheep. The summons is typed by the judge himself, on his handsome old stationer), and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray...
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: октябрь 2006
