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978-1-878086-49-5
1-878086-49-9
$13.95 paperback
6" x 9"
116 pages
Down Home Press &
Raleigh News & Observer
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What happens when 17 of North
Carolina's best known, and most shameless, writers agree to write a
serial novel, each producing a chapter in turn? Strange and wondrous
things indeed.
A writer's conference
writhing with reptiles. A mysterious death. Cross dressing. Shameless
country song writing. An encounter with Robert James Waller. A family
values brush arbor revival in North Carolina's Crown Jewel of Science.
Not to mention gopher whacking, baton-twirling, vegetarianism, adultery,
unwanted pregnancy, moral and dental decay, evangelical Republicanism,
blatant ooh-poo-pa-dooing, and other crimes and misdemeanors.
Pete and Shirley are the
quintessential Tar Heel couple, early-middle-age, middle-class, each
married for the second time, both striving to improve themselves. He's
looking for a country music hit, she's dreaming of literary stardom.
Then one day, Shirley brings home a box of clothing from a garage sale.
In the bottom is a sealed briefcase with a note taped to it. Shirley
opens it--and the fun and weirdness begin....
Ribald, rowdy, raucous, and
riveting, this hilarious novel is unlike any other you're ever apt to
read.
Authors featured in Pete
& Shirley include:
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Clyde Edgerton
Lee Smith
Fred Chappell
David Guy
Tim McLaurin
Jill McCorkle
William McCranor Henderson
Kaye Gibbons
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Jerry Bledsoe
Margaret Maron
Philip Gerard
Marianne Gingher
Bland Simpson
Laura Argiri
John Welter
Jaki Shelton Green
Michael Chitwood
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about the editors
Conceived by David Perkins, former book editor of Raleigh's News
& Observer, and co-conspirator Clyde Edgerton, noted novelist,
pilot, and earthmover, who wrote the first and last chapters, this
project, which was edited by Perkins, appeared in serial form in the News
& Observer. Perkins is also the editor of The News &
Observer's Raleigh: A Living History of North Carolina's Capital and
Books of Passage.
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