Showing results for "Memphis" in Genre Fiction

Dans la chaleur étouffante de l'été 1995, après un énième débordement de colère de son père, Joan North trouve refuge avec sa mère et sa jeune sœur dans la majestueuse maison qui a vu les femmes de sa famille grandir. Tapissé de lierre et de chèvrefeuille où nichent colibris, abeilles et papillons, ce verdoyant havre de paix semble raconter sa propre histoire. En poussant la gigantesque porte de bois, Joan sait qu'elle va découvrir d'innombrables fantômes. Celui de son grand-père, lynché après être devenu le premier inspecteur noir de la ville.

Summer, 1977. Shelby Colter moved back to Memphis, Tennessee, hoping to make a fresh start after breaking off her engagement. Working as a patient representative hostess at Baptist Memorial Hospital - the world's largest private hospital - she's thrilled with her new job, assisting patients with their non-medical needs. She has to laugh at her colorful co-workers who constantly chat about Elvis - sightings. After all, Baptist was "Elvis's hospital." Shelby hits the ground running, taking care of her patients, getting to know her new friends, and bumping into...Dr. Tucker Thompson?

This is the end.

Born in 1917, Tennessee author Peter Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for this exceptional work of literature. The well-to-do Carver family moves to Memphis from Nashville, where they become embroiled in a domestic dispute over the widower patriarch's decision to remarry.