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Eno Publishers builds on its successful 27 Views series by
showcasing the literary community of Durham, North Carolina, in 27
Views of Durham: The Bull City in Prose & Poetry. The book
features 27 writers, who in poetry, essays, short stories, and book
excerpts focus on the town of Durham, famous for Duke University,
tobacco, and Southern cuisine. The collection offers readers a
broad and varied picture of life past and present in Durham, as
well as a sense of the town's literary breadth. Contributing
authors include Steve Schewel, Barry Saunders, Jean Anderson, Carl
Kenney, Katy Munger, David Guy, Ariel Dorfman, Pierce Freelon,
Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Andre Vann, John Valentine, Shirlette Ammons,
Jim Wise, and others.
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.
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.
The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, gathers every May to
clean up the graveyard and talk. Every one of them has stories to
tell, and it is Albert Copeland who writes it all down in the
notebooks he started years ago to track the progress of the
floatplanes he builds. The notebooks hold all the best-kept
secrets-of love, loss, and yearnings to let go. The Floatplane
Notebooks, Clyde Edgerton's third novel, first published in 1988,
is a multigenerational story of the Copeland family, spanning from
the antebellum era to the Vietnam War. The novel cycles through a
series of six narrators, including a generations-old wisteria vine
that shares elements of a dark history the family members cannot
and will not reveal. Edgerton balances the comic with the realistic
in a deft portrayal of the rural South and also depicts elements of
the sense of loss that is a consequence of war. The Floatplane
Notebooks was a selection of the Book of the Month Club and the
Quality Paperback Book Club. This Southern Revivals edition
includes a new introduction from the author and a preface from
series editor Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., director of the University
of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies.
Clyde Edgerton's Raney is the comic love story of a marriage
between Raney, a small-town Southern Baptist, and Charles, a
librarian with liberal leanings from Atlanta, united by their
shared enthusiasm for country music. The novel both interrogates
and honors the faiths and foibles of its subjects as the
relationship is tested through trials and revelations. Despite the
couple's differences, their marriage slowly evolves into a
relationship of equals in which both are willing to compromise for
the good of the other and the marriage. Told though Raney's naive
and mesmerizing perspective as a southern storyteller, serious and
sometimes heartbreaking moments give way to a humorous and joyful
tale that pokes fun at and holds respect for just about everyone
who passes through these pages. Raney, Edgerton's first novel, was
originally published in 1985. It represents some of Edgerton's most
comic, candid, and ambitious writing. This Southern Revivals
edition includes a new introduction by the author and a preface
from series editor Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., director of the
University of South Carolina Institute for Southern Studies.
After three decades of being a father, Clyde Edgerton-with four
kids ranging in age from six to 30-is supremely qualified to give
tips to dads of all ages. His fathering advice, pre-birth through
schooling, involves plenty of his trademark humor, but also sound
guidance enhanced by his training and experience as an educator.
Papa Edgerton suggests that on occasion a father might forego
reading and just point to the pictures of dogs and cats in baby
books, and also that he might place a blanket on the lawn, lie on
his back with the whole family, and watch Sky Television.
Edgerton's humorous and helpful counsel will guide new parents on
interacting with in-laws and coping with sleep deprivation, while
also providing strategies for recovery after you've cursed in front
of a mimicking baby. "If you don't feel apprehensive just before
your first child is to arrive, you are abnormal," writes Edgerton.
Yet by way of his experience, observation, and imagination, he
provides caution and pure joy in equal measure.
Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain
saws and 1,600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the army during the
Second World War. Back on the road in postwar North Carolina, now a
member of a car-theft ring, he picks up hitchhiking Henry Dampier,
an innocent twenty-year-old Bible salesman. Clearwater immediately
recognizes Henry as smart but gullible, just the associate he
needs--one who will believe Clearwater is working undercover for
the F.B.I.; one who will drive the cars Clearwater steals as
Clearwater follows along in his own car at a safe distance. Henry
joyfully sees a chance to lead a dual life as a Bible salesman and
a G-man. During his hilarious and scary adventures, Henry grapples
with doubts about the Bible's accuracy, and we learn of his
fundamentalist upbringing, an upbringing that doesn't prepared him
for his new life. As he falls in love with the captivating Marleen
Green and questions his religious training, Henry begins to see
he's being used--that he is on his own in a way he never imagined.
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