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Author: Clyde Edgerton Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616202149 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
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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 written record, of sorts, in some notebooks he bought back in 1956 to log the flights of his home-built floatplane. He embarked on that project when the kids were still little, but now they’re all grown: Thatcher has a son of his own; Meredith and Mark are back from Vietnam; and Noralee is off dating hippies. The notebooks are thick with the floatplane’s failures to lift off, and bulging with color Polaroids of the wisteria blossoms near the family plot, favorite family dogs, and Thatcher and Bliss’s wedding; records of Noralee’s height and weight; a diagram of the graveyard; a newspaper story about wild-child Meredith’s many backfired schemes. This novel travels back in time more than one hundred years, to the Copeland bride who first planted the wisteria by the back porch that would take over the surrounding woods, and then back to the present again to show how even though times change, people are pretty much the same. “Among the wisest, most heartfelt writing to emerge from the South in our generation . . . Meredith Copeland’s first-person account of his Vietnam experience, homecoming, and physical paralysis in North Carolina is breathtakingly stark, full, and real.” ―Los Angeles Times “The Floatplane Notebooks has all the marks of a master storyteller going straight for the mystery itself. All the marks, that is, of a new American classic.” ―The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A wonderful celebration of family and tradition, with warts, humor, tragedy, and triumph . . . An exceedingly rich book, a celebration of the human spirit that is brilliantly conceived, structured, and executed.” ―The Cincinnati Post
Author: Clyde Edgerton Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616202149 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 217
Book Description
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 written record, of sorts, in some notebooks he bought back in 1956 to log the flights of his home-built floatplane. He embarked on that project when the kids were still little, but now they’re all grown: Thatcher has a son of his own; Meredith and Mark are back from Vietnam; and Noralee is off dating hippies. The notebooks are thick with the floatplane’s failures to lift off, and bulging with color Polaroids of the wisteria blossoms near the family plot, favorite family dogs, and Thatcher and Bliss’s wedding; records of Noralee’s height and weight; a diagram of the graveyard; a newspaper story about wild-child Meredith’s many backfired schemes. This novel travels back in time more than one hundred years, to the Copeland bride who first planted the wisteria by the back porch that would take over the surrounding woods, and then back to the present again to show how even though times change, people are pretty much the same. “Among the wisest, most heartfelt writing to emerge from the South in our generation . . . Meredith Copeland’s first-person account of his Vietnam experience, homecoming, and physical paralysis in North Carolina is breathtakingly stark, full, and real.” ―Los Angeles Times “The Floatplane Notebooks has all the marks of a master storyteller going straight for the mystery itself. All the marks, that is, of a new American classic.” ―The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A wonderful celebration of family and tradition, with warts, humor, tragedy, and triumph . . . An exceedingly rich book, a celebration of the human spirit that is brilliantly conceived, structured, and executed.” ―The Cincinnati Post
Author: Clyde Edgerton Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1565120604 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 255
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Peopled with the odd characters, Indians, Quakers, and Mormons of turn-of-the-century Colorado, this story features an enterprising frontiersman who plans to turn Native American cliff dwellings into America's first roadside attraction
Author: Clyde Edgerton Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: 1616202130 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 238
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"This book is too good to keep to yourself. Read it aloud with someone you love, then send it to a friend. But be sure to keep a copy for yourself, because you'll want to read it again and again."-- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey Raney is a small-town Baptist. Charles is a liberal from Atlanta. And Raney is the story of their marriage. Charming, wise, funny, and truthful, it is a novel for everyone to love. "A real jewel."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
Author: Clyde Edgerton Publisher: ISBN: 9785552466122 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Edgerton's first novel, Raney, went into six printings before becoming a smash paperback hit. His second, Walking Across Egypt, doubled the first's hardcover sales, set off a scramble for paperback rights, and launched the Book-of-the-Month Club's "Discovery" series. Now, there is The Floatplane Notebooks--a breakthrough novel that combines Edgerton's comic gift with his piercing insights into family ties.
Author: W. Dale Brown Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing ISBN: 0802843131 Category : American fiction Languages : en Pages : 280
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Of Fiction and Faith features personal interviews with twelve of America's most significant writers, interviews which provide a window into the personal and literary lives of writers with special focus on their attitudes towards issues of faith.
Author: Richard J. Gray Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820330051 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 308
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Helps readers understand how any literary tradition involves an open conversation between its texts - a web of words that stretches from the local to the transnational. This book charts 3 different intertextual practices involving writings both within and outside the South.
Author: Clyde Edgerton
Author: Clyde Edgerton
Author: Clyde Edgerton
Author: Clyde Edgerton
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Author: Clyde Edgerton
Author: Clyde Edgerton
Author: Clyde Edgerton
Author: W. Dale Brown
Author: Richard J. Gray