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"Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0345410300
ISBN13:9780345410306
Release Date:September 1996
Publisher:Ballantine Books
Length:247 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
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4 ratings
If you went to Campbell University...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
you will enjoy this book. Edgerton taught there and the similarities between the fictional Baptist university and CU are difficult to miss.
Sequel Outshines the Original
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Eight years after the events of Walking Across Egypt, Edgerton resumes the story of now twenty-four-year-old Wesley Benfield, ex-con resident of a Baptist halfway house called BOTA (Back On Track Again). This sequel does what few sequels can: it outshines the original. I frequently laughed out loud and near the end, I was moved almost to tears. Edgerton is a Christian who can respectfully mine the foibles and humor of organized religion, specifically of his fellow Baptists, and more specifically of the men running Baptist colleges. The pompous Sears twins, Ted and Ned, are brilliantly drawn in their endless fund-raising and insensitivity to the genuinely disadvantaged. I was so pleased to find out that Mattie Rigsby was still alive at age 86, and that Wesley had promise despite his rocky start. As in Walking Across Egypt, though, Edgerton leaves us with a less than satisfying conclusion. Will Mattie be able to resume taking care of herself? Will Wesley end up back in jail? This time, there's no sequel, at least not yet.
Pretty near as good as Mattie's home cookin'
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Personally, I liked Raney and Walking Across Egypt better than this one, but it's still pretty damn good. Wesley , the delinquent sort of adopted by Mrs. Mattie Rigsbee in Walking Across Egypt, is now 24, and still a bit of a handful. He's a resident in a Christian halfway house in rural North Carolina. There's a love interest, a band, and there's Vernon, who 'bout steals the show when he appears on the page. And of course Mattie herself, who is older still but still cooking up a storm.Good story, great author; sequel to follow, surely.
this book is funny
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
this book is real funny. With a few different angles it gives a taste of religion with a twist. The book can be graphic at times though
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