Clyde Edgerton

• Jan-1985
• / General Fiction
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From the author of Walking Across Egypt, the story of the first two years, two months, and two days in the life of a modern Southern marriage.“Raney is a gem, and Raney Bell Shepherd is a captivating character -- a female Huck Finn whose voyage of ...

• Jan-1987
• / General Fiction
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An unlikely friendship forms between a spunky senior and an orphaned delinquent in this humorous and “rollicking” Southern novel (Publishers Weekly).“An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains...

• Apr-1988
• / General Fiction
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This novel set in North Carolina is “warmly humorous, gossipy, and rich―a book with the soul of a family reunion” (The New York Times Book Review).   The Copeland family goes back a long way in North Carolina. Albert Copeland keeps a writt...

• Jan-1991
• / Suspense
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Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned (or is it Ned and Ted?), who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile, their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvanta...

• Jan-1992
• / General Fiction
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In the Bales-McCord family there are several old people contemplating their final resting places. Two of them--Glenn and Laura Bales--are in bad shape, and everybody is wondering which one will go first. Join them in Summerlin as they attend to the b...

• Jan-1995
• / Historical
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This New York Times Notable Book is a quirky tale of the Old West from the author of The Bible Salesman, “a master of comic timing” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).   “A Hollywood pitchman might call Redeye Eudora Welty meets Mark Twain,” says...

• Jan-1997
• / Suspense
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1. How would you characterize Stephen's relationship with each of his parents? With his church and his religion? 2. What prospects of stability are offered to the community by the church? Instability? 3. How is the church important to Jack Umstead? 4...

• Oct-2003
• / General Fiction
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In his eighth deliciously funny novel, Clyde Edgerton introduces us to the irrepressible Lil Olive, who's recently arrived at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center to recuperate from a bad fall. Lil longs to be back in her own apartment, and since her d...

• Aug-2008
• / General Fiction
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Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitch-hiking H...

• Aug-2011
• / Literary
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In 1963, at the age of 17, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. His band, the Amazing Rumblers, studies and rehearses Brown's Live at the Apollo album in the storage room of his father's shop in their small North ...