Clyde Edgerton

Clyde EdgertonFor years, Clyde Edgerton has been delighting readers with his particularly loving look at Southern characters.

Beginning with RANEY and continuing through NIGHT TRAIN, Clyde has captured the lives and nuances of people we seem to have known all our lives.

He is a North Carolina native, born in Durham, educated at Chapel Hill, and now living in Wilmington.  He is a talented musiccian as  well as author.  

The Night Train (Hardcover)

By Clyde Edgerton
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ISBN-13: 9780316117593
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Published: Little, Brown and Company, 7/2011
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In 1963, at the age of 17, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. His band, the Amazing Rumblers, studies and rehearses Brown's Live at the Apollo album in the storage room of his father's shop in their small North Carolina town. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry--aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk--apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. His mother hopes music will allow him to escape the South.

A dancing chicken and a mutual passion for music help Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams and maintain their friendship, even while their world says both are impossible. In THE NIGHT TRAIN, Edgerton's trademark humor reminds us of our divided national history and the way music has helped bring us together.

The Bible Salesman (Paperback)

By Clyde Edgerton
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ISBN-13: 9780316117579
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Published: Back Bay Books, 9/2009
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Everyone on staff who's read THE BIBLE SALESMAN has loved it.

Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since he began stealing from the Army during the Second World War. Back on the road in post-war North Carolina, he picks up hitchhiking Henry Dampier, and immediately recognizes Henry as just the associate he needs to help Clearwater's car-theft ring.  

Raney (Paperback)

By Clyde Edgerton
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ISBN-13: 9780345419057
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Published: Ballantine Books, 6/1997
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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

Lunch at the Piccadilly (Paperback)

By Clyde Edgerton
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ISBN-13: 9780345476784
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Published: Ballantine Books, 8/2004
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Welcome to the Rosehaven Convalescence Center in beautiful Listre, North Carolina. Recuperating after a recent fall, Lil Olive sits on the front porch, chitchatting with and rocking right alongside the regulars. There's tiny Maudie Lowe with her cane that seems too tall; Beatrice Satterwhite, whose fancy three-wheeled walker is a Cadillac among Chevrolets; Clara Cochran, who cusses as frequently as she takes a breath; and L. Ray Flowers, the freelance preacher who strums a mean guitar, and who reveals his dream of forming a national movement to unite churches and nursing homes ("Nurches of America"). Keeping a watchful eye on them all is Carl, Lil's middle-age bachelor nephew with a heart of gold and the patience of a saint. But Lil is restless, eager to get back to her own apartment. She wants some adventure. And before long, tranquil Rosehaven is turned upside down. . . .

Solo: My Adventures in the Air (Paperback)

By Clyde Edgerton
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ISBN-13: 9781565125469
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Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 11/2006
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When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to the local airport to see the planes. For Edgerton, it was love at first sight. Eighteen years later, she would take him to the same airport to catch a flight to Texas for Air Force pilot training. In "SOLO," Edgerton tells the story of his lifelong love affair with flying, from his childlike wonder to his job as a fighter pilot flying reconnaissance over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Now, nearly thirty-five years after the war in Vietnam, he looks back at his youthful passion for flying, at the joy he took in mastering it, at the exhilaration-- and lingering anguish-- of combat flying. It is a story told with empathy and humor-- and with searing honesty that will resonate with every pilot who remembers the first takeoff, the first landing, the first solo. For the nonpilots who always choose the window seat, it's a thrilling story to live vicariously.

Walking Across Egypt (Mass Market Paperback)

By Clyde Edgerton
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ISBN-13: 9780345346490
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Published: Ballantine Books, 2/1988
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"An unpretentious, finely-crafted novel that will linger with the readers like the last strains of a favorite hymn. It is more enjoyable than a pitcher full of sweet tea and one of Mattie's home-cooked dinners."
--THE ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION

She had as much business keeping a stray dog as she had walking across Egypt--which not so incidentally is the title of her favorite hymn. She's Mattie Rigsbee, an independent, strong-minded senior citizen, who at 78, might be slowing down just a bit. When young, delinquent Wesley Benfield drops in on her life, he is even less likely a companion than the stray dog. But, of course, the dog never tasted her mouth-watering pound cake....Wise witty, down-home and real, WALKING ACROSS EGYPT is a book for everyone.