The Summons

Grisham, John

ISBN 10: 0553714635 ISBN 13: 9780553714630

Casa editrice: Random House, 2002

Riassunto

For the first time since A Time to Kill, the author returns to Ford County, Mississippi, a place rich in colorful characters and dark family secrets, for his latest legal thriller.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull?autore

John Grisham lives with his family in Virginia and Mississippi. His previous novels areA Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, andThe Testament.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

>
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 No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.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

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Random House
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0553714635
• ISBN 13: 9780553714630
• Rilegatura: Audio CD
• Lingua: Inglese
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile