The Floatplane Notebooks

Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202149
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notebooks written by Clyde Edgerton and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-09-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780140119862
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notebooks written by Clyde Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780685295717
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notebooks written by Clyde Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Outlet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517086377
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notebooks written by Outlet and published by . This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clyde Edgerton
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202130
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raney written by Clyde Edgerton and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565120604
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redeye written by Clyde Edgerton and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 :
ISBN 13 : 9785552466122
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Floatplane Notesbooks written by Clyde Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 0802843131
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Fiction and Faith written by W. Dale Brown and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9780820330051
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Web of Words written by Richard J. Gray and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Yvonne Mason
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820481432
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading, Learning, Teaching Clyde Edgerton written by Yvonne Mason and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the literature of contemporary American writer Clyde Edgerton. A North Carolina native, Edgerton has been compared to Mark Twain for his easy, humorous style, which is based in oral tradition. Like Twain and other humorous writers, Edgerton's work often contains both biting satire and exploration of very large questions about the human condition. The book contains an overview of each of his novels and his memoir in addition to offering critical commentary on theme, craft, and structure. Pedagogical support is offered with specific strategies that will encourage authentic engagement and learning. Teachers will find specific companion pieces of literature for introducing Edgerton's vivid and challenging work. This book presents the case for including more of Clyde Edgerton's work in our secondary and college English language arts classrooms as a means of revitalizing curricula and challenging the ways we traditionally think about teaching.