Carl’s aunt Lil Olive lives at the Rosehaven Convalescence Center in Listre. Lil is recuperating there after a recent fall. She still has her own apartment and she wants nothing more than going back home, although she made some friends in the Center. She feels old in the Center and she is afraid it will be her last home. Carl keeps a frequent eye on his aunt and her girlfriends, who are old but not at all tired of life, concluding in all sorts of different trips to stores, lunchrooms and even the police station. And when you throw L. Ray Flowers, the amateur but passionate preacher, into the mix, you’ll get a bunch of golden oldies, who’ll steal your heart when you read this book.
this is a preview of lunch at the piccadilly – clyde edgerton
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After reading three of his books, Edgerton is becoming one of my favorite authors. He has a real sense of wit that I like and his stories and characters are real and funny. Killer Diller is just more proof.
The juvenal delinquent from Walking across Egypt has his life in order now with help from Mattie, the grandmother he never had. Wesley has become a good Christian, a good man. Together with other young adults, who had “a rough time” he lives in the BOTA (Back On Track Again) house. He is a guitar player in the “gospel band” and has fallen for a girl living nearby in the house for young obese Christians.
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Stephen Toomey and Jack Umstead are the two main characters of this fine little story. Stephen is a six-years old boy who lives in Listre and Jack is a 57 years old misfit passing through town on his way to probably con yet another innocent. By an incident where Inky, Stephen’s kitten is injured they get to know each other and Jack comes in contact with people without his usual criminal intent behind the communication.
Other people have some say in the book too; there’s Alease Toomey, mother of Stephen, her brother, Mrs. Weams, Cheryl, the Blaine sisters (watch out for them!), to name a few. They all make a colorful Southern town and a funny, yet serious, story.
this is a preview of where trouble sleeps – clyde edgerton
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I haven’t been disappointed by Edgerton yet and also this book is a must read for anybody who loves an intriguing family story with loveable and fascinating characters. For this reason I’m reluctant to say anything else about the story.
Every chapter is a memory of one member of the family. Through their eyes we see the different relationships between these people full of love, their passions, their traditions, their weaknesses, their courage to be human. And then there is the vine. He also has his own chapters. He tells us about the many generations before the ones who have their place in the floatplane notebooks.
this is a preview of the floatplane notebooks – clyde edgerton
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Mattie Rigsbee, a 78 year old independent and strong-willed religious senior that loves cooking and watching “All my children”, keeps telling herself she is slowing down a bit. By doing that she is trying to convince herself of something that isn’t quite true and keeping herself from wanting the things she is still able doing or having.
When one day a stray dog sits on her doorstep and she decides to call the dogcatcher she doesn’t realize her whole life will be different from then on. The dogcatcher becomes a part of her life, but he brings another person in the picture as well; his nephew, a 16 year old boy, who stays in the YMRC for stealing a car. He has no place to go, because no one wants to or can’t be his guardian. When he escapes and walks right into Mattie’s world, she has to make some decisions about her and his life.
this is a preview of walking across egypt – clyde edgerton
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