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Where Trouble SleepsFor his seventh novel, Clyde returns to the setting of his own childhood, a North Carolina crossroads community at mid twentieth century. With a newly installed blinking red-and-yellow light to accommodate growing traffic, the 1950 Listre crossroads also boasts a grocery store, a service station, a barber shop, a variety store, a grill, some tourist cabins, and a few houses. This is the story of what happens when a stranger passing though decides to spend a few days there. "Give Clyde Edgerton an inch and he’ll take a mile off your funny bone." - The Commercial Appeal: Memphis Where Trouble Sleeps. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1997. Ballantine, 1998. |
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Redeye: A WesternClyde’s saddled up and headed to the land of mesa, dudes, rattlesnakes, frontiersmen, and bounty hunters to tell the story of "How the West Was Made Safe for Tenderfoots Like Us." The time is the turn of the century, the scene is the pueblo country of Colorado, and the man with the plan is Billy Blankenship. Together with P. J. Copeland, a carpenter and freelance embalmer from North Carolina, Blankenship aims to turn the newly discovered Native American cliff dwellings of Mesa Largo into the Great American Tourist Trap. "A master of the old-fashioned American art of tale-spinning. His literary line goes back straight as an arrow to Mark Twain." - San Diego Union- Tribune Redeye: A Western. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1995. Penguin, 1996. |
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In Memory of JuniorTwenty-one North Carolinians tell the story of 2 weeks when a whole pack of relatives waited to see who would die first—old man Bales or his ailing wife. Glenn and Laura Bales are at the point of contemplating their final resting places. And Glenn’s old hell-raising ex-brother-in-law, Grove McCord, is considering his as well. The younger folks are impatient to get some of this passing on on the road. Trouble is, there are too many graves and not enough gravestones to go around so one of those old people is just going to have to stay alive a little longer and do some passing down. "Shines a clear, warm light on the dark side of things." - The New Yorker In Memory of Junior. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1992. Ballantine, 1994. |
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Killer DillerA return to Hansen County finds Wesley Benfield (see Walking Across Egypt) still at work on redeeming himself in the eyes of the Lord and of his foster grandma, Mattie Rigsbee. Over in Summerlin, the Baptist college is growing to beat the band. It’s opened Nutrition House, where overweight Christians can Lose Weight and Gain Wisdom, and BOTA (Back on Track Again) Halfway House is teaching decent Baptist values to young criminals. Wesley is one of them. "Edgerton creates a gallery of Southern Types and cleverly skewers most of them. . . (But) Wesley and his friends are some of the most appealing rogues since Robin Hood left Sherwood Forest" - Boston Sunday Herald "Once again, Mr. Edgerton has targeted the snake-oil variety of southern Christianity for the slings and arrows of his outrageous humor, his outraged sensibilities. - The News & Observer Killer Diller. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1992. Ballantine, 1992. |
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The Floatplane NotebooksThe Floatplane Notebooks chronicles the history of the Copeland family of North Carolina—from before the Civil War to after Vietnam. The family goes way, way back. Every May they gather to clean up the graveyard and clip the wisteria vine away from the tombstones, while the old people talk to keep the path to past open. Albert Copeland, the current head of the family, writes it all down in the notebooks he uses to track the progress of his homemade floatplane. A family album of talk and tales, this novel shares the best-kept secrets of love, loss, and letting go. "Warmly humorous, gossipy and rich—a book with the soul of a family reunion." - The New York Times Book Review "This whimsical, utterly original, ultimately brilliant novel of small-town North Carolina and Vietnam. . . the story. . . he seems to have been born to tell is—to paraphrase Faulkner—told right." - Los Angeles Times The Floatplane Notebooks. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1988. Ballantine, 1989. |
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RaneyThe story of the first two years, two months, and two days of a modern southern marriage. Raney is a Free Will Baptist. Charles is an Episcopalian. Raney’s views—on sex, race relations, child rearing—are. . . um, conservative. Charles’s are a little more liberal. Can this marriage be saved? "Wonderful small surprises throughout." - Newsweek "The book is dangerous. It is one of those rare volumes that causes uncontrollable fits of laughter and makes normally quiet, shy people read passages aloud." - Atlanta Journal & Constitution Raney. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985. Ballantine, 1986. |
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