- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0345410300
- ISBN-13: 978-0345410306
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,825,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales."
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Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvantaged with wayward youth who want to share their talents. Enter Wesley Benfield, a prime candidate for Project Promise, with a special place in his heart for Baptist songwriting, preaching, and a wide, iron-pumping girl over at the Nutrition House. The Lord only knows where Wesley will go from here....
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LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvantaged with wayward youth who want to share their talents. Enter Wesley Benfield, a prime candidate for Project Promise, with a special place in his heart for Baptist songwriting, preaching, and a wide, iron-pumping girl over at the Nutrition House. The Lord only knows where Wesley will go from here....
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Vernon Jackson sits on the side of his bed in his white Jockey undershorts-which have mostly separated from their waistband. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
Not as inspired as Raney, but a decent summer read. You probably need to have a sympathy for what at-risk students become as grownups. You'll feel like you got a glimpse of their own peculiar logic. The dog is charmless.
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Sequel Outshines the Original
5 Jan 2004
Format:Hardcover
Eight years after the events of Walking Across Egypt, Edgerton resumes the story of now twenty-four-year-old Wesley Benfield, ex-con resident of a Baptist halfway house called BOTA (Back On Track Again). This sequel does what few sequels can: it outshines the original. I frequently laughed out loud and near the end, I was moved almost to tears. Edgerton is a Christian who can respectfully mine the foibles and humor of organized religion, specifically of his fellow Baptists, and more specifically of the men running Baptist colleges. The pompous Sears twins, Ted and Ned, are brilliantly drawn in their endless fund-raising and insensitivity to the genuinely disadvantaged. I was so pleased to find out that Mattie Rigsby was still alive at age 86, and that Wesley had promise despite his rocky start. As in Walking Across Egypt, though, Edgerton leaves us with a less than satisfying conclusion. Will Mattie be able to resume taking care of herself? Will Wesley end up back in jail? This time, there's no sequel, at least not yet.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
If you went to Campbell University...
27 July 2007
Format:Paperback
you will enjoy this book. Edgerton taught there and the similarities between the fictional Baptist university and CU are difficult to miss.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Pretty near as good as Mattie's home cookin'
26 Jun 2003
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Personally, I liked Raney and Walking Across Egypt better than this one, but it's still pretty damn good. Wesley , the delinquent sort of adopted by Mrs. Mattie Rigsbee in Walking Across Egypt, is now 24, and still a bit of a handful. He's a resident in a Christian halfway house in rural North Carolina. There's a love interest, a band, and there's Vernon, who 'bout steals the show when he appears on the page. And of course Mattie herself, who is older still but still cooking up a storm.
Good story, great author; sequel to follow, surely.
Good story, great author; sequel to follow, surely.
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