Description

Once Judge Atlee was a strong figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a-pillar of the city who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is just a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the finish is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to come back to Clanton to go over his estate. Ray Atlee may be the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce.