#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - 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local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self--a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.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!Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 02/05/2002
ISBN: 9780385503822
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.57h x 6.41w x 1.24d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2001 pg. 76
People Weekly 02/18/2002 pg. 41
Entertainment Weekly 02/15/2002 pg. 60
Publishers Weekly 02/04/2002 pg. 55
Booklist 02/15/2002 pg. 970
New York Times 02/24/2002 pg. 13
USA Today 12/18/2002 pg. 1
Library Journal 10/01/2001
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 60667 / Summons
Reading Level: 5.8 /
Interest Level: Upper Grade /
Point Value: 13