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020			_a0440241073
040			_aBSOP
041			_aEnglish
050			_aFIC _aG88s _a2002
100			_aGrisham, John
245			_aThe Summons / _cJohn Grisham.
264			_aNew York, USA: _bThe Random House Publishing, _c2002.
300			_a373p. ; _c17cm.
440			_aThe Summons
520			_aRay 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 No longer on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.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 does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.
650			_aFiction, Legal Thriller, Suspense
942			_2lcc _cBK
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