A Summons to Memphis
10 best books like A Summons to Memphis (Peter Taylor): The Stone Diaries, Independence Day, Alice Adams, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, The Way West, The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Ironweed, Advise and Consent, The Edge of Sadness
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0099447126 |
In this second novel of Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe quartet, I was drawn further into the microcosm life and lifestyle of not only the man, but also the macrocosm of America – the environment and history that parallels the structure of his life.
In this second novel Frank is experiencing...
| Author | Booth Tarkington |
| ISBN | 1434100243 |
Alice Adams, the daughter of middle-class parents, wants desperately to belong with the people of "high society" who live in her town. Ultimately, her ambitions are tempered by the realities of her situation, which she learns to accept with grace and style. Alice's resiliency of spirit makes her one...
| Author | Oliver La Farge |
| ISBN | 0618446729 |
Capturing the essence of the Southwest in 1915, Oliver La Farge's Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel is an enduring American classic. At a ceremonial dance, the young, earnest silversmith Laughing Boy falls in love with Slim Girl, a beautiful but elusive "American"-educated Navajo. As they experience...
| Author | Katherine Anne Porter |
| ISBN | 0156188767 |
A very skilled short story writer, Katherine Anne Porter brings to life her characters and, primarily through character development, takes you deep into their world with a minimum of words. Not once did I feel that a story ended prematurely or that I wanted or expected more than I got.
She tackles...
| Author | A.B. Guthrie Jr. |
| ISBN | 0618154620 |
An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers...
| Author | Robert Lewis Taylor |
| ISBN | 0385422229 |
Dr. Sardius McPheeters, is a dreamer always chasing the elusive beautiful rainbow, but never quite fully grasping it in his hands, the gambler and imbiber of strong drinks, is a capable physician in Louisville, Kentucky, his family suffers though, but his creditors want their money...The time, during...
| Author | William Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0743263065 |
Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike. He ran away again after accidentally -- and fatally -- dropping his infant son.
Now, in 1938, Francis is back in...
| Author | Allen Drury |
| ISBN | 0380010070 |
ADVISE AND CONSENT is a study of political animals in their natural habitat and is universally recognized as THE Washington novel. It begins with Senate confirmation hearings for a liberal Secretary of State and concludes two weeks later, after debate and controversy have exploded this issue into...
| Author | Edwin O'Connor |
| ISBN | 0829421238 |
“A realistic Christian novel of hope in a non-Christian age.”—New England Quarterly
“A deeply felt and eloquently expressed work . . . A quiet, gentle novel of considerable insight and charm . . .”—Library Journal
“O’Connor succeeds in delineating poignantly the...
| Author | William Faulkner |
| ISBN | 0394724135 |
This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as...
| Author | Conrad Richter |
| ISBN | 0821409808 |
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1951
The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned Richter immediate acclaim as a historical novelist....
| Author | Ernest Poole |
| ISBN | 1594624089 |
In this 1918 Pulitzer Prize winning story, widower Roger Gale struggles to deal with the way his children and grandchildren respond to the changing society. His Family is the story of a sixty-year-old New York man who reflects on his life and the lives of his three daughters. The women represent three...
