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The Summons (Paperback)
by John Grisham (Author)
2.9 out of 5 stars  (45 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (27 Nov 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099406136
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099406136
  • Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 11.1 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  (45 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 54,236 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
An intelligent, low-key thriller, The Summons continues John Grisham's exploration of the common decencies of a strain of American commercial story-telling in literature and film that we often link to the work of Frank Capra or O Henry. He is not afraid of parable or of setting up situations that are at once archetypal and attractively specific. This is a tale of two brothers--one is righteous, more or less, and one is not--and a question of their inheritance. Ancient Mississippi judge Atlee summons his two sons to his deathbed, but dies before he can explain himself, leaving Ray, who arrives on time unlike his drunkard brother Forest with the difficult problem of the three million dollars in used notes which are lying around the house in shoe-boxes. Ray worries about his father's posthumous reputation, about the Inland Revenue Service and about how quickly Forrest could drink himself to death with unlimited funds.

Grisham is very acute indeed on how the best of intentions lead Ray not to any significant crime or atrocity but to quietly unconscionable behaviour. And then he realises he is being followed... Grisham can build suspense out of remarkably little and has a real gift for understanding the quiet anxieties of an ordinary man. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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‘Classic Grisham’ The Times

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