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In Memory of Junior

by Clyde Edgerton

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I read this as an antidote to Bastard Out of Carolina, the last book I finished. Edgerton deals with the same sort of characters as BOC in a completely different way--with sympathy, humor (dark as it sometimes is)and understanding. For a book that's basically about death and human reactions to it, this is a rib-tickler. You can't feel bad while reading Edgerton. He's medicinal. (

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"An American treasure...Edgerton s a mater of the old-fashioned American art of tale-spinning. His literary line goes back straight as an arrow to the likes of Sherwood Anderson and Mark Twain."

THE SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE

Join the folks in Summerlin, North Carolina, as they attend to the sad, crazy, but inevitable business of passing on--and passing down. For a whole pack of relatives is waiting to see who dies first. Will it be Glenn or Laura Bales? The order will determine which children from which marriage will get the land. And if tha tisn't enough intrigue, hell-raising black sheep Uncle Grove McCord has decided that Summerlin should be his final resting place--and he's about to arrive still very much alive....

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