La citacin / The Summons-Fast Shipping

Description

El señorAtlee, un hombre mayor y muy enfermo, vive solo en la casa familiar deClanton, Mississippi. Había sido un juez temido y apreciado que había estadopor encima de la ley y la política local durante cuarenta años.

Ahora casi seha vuelto un recluso. Al ver de cerca su fin, el juez Atlee manda llamar a suhijo Ray, un profesor de Derecho en la Universidad de Virginia, para acordarlos detalles de la herencia. Su hijo se encamina, reticente, hacia el sur,pero el encuentro familiar no tiene lugar. El juez muere demasiado pronto. Ycon ello, deja tras de sí un secreto sorprendente que solo llega a conocerRay.

Y quizá alguien más.

ENGLISHDESCRIPTION

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at theUniversity of Virginia. He’s forty-three, newly single, and still enduringthe aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, whoredefines the notion of a family’s black sheep

And he has a father, avery sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton,Mississippi. He is known to all as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerfulofficial who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. Nolonger on the bench, the Judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and becomea recluse.

With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons forboth sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. Itis typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives thedate and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study.

Rayreluctantly 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 Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secretknown only to Ray.

And perhaps someone else.