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Walking Across Egypt (Reissue) (Paperback)
Description Mattie Rigsbee is seventy-eight. She lives by herself in Listre, North Carolina (near Bethel). She claims she's "slowing down", but she still cuts her own grass and runs the Lottie Moon missions fund drive at Listre Baptist Church. This is the scene into which Edgerton drops Wesley Benfield -- adolescent, illegitimate, and delinquent, with a mouth full of foul language and bad teeth and a craving for good food. Wesley Benfield, an adolescent with a mouth full of bad teeth and foul language...
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Walking Across Egypt
"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...
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MOVIE DVD - Walking Across Egypt (DVD)
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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...
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walking across egypt (DVD)
Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Burstyn appears in this drama alongside Jonathan Taylor Thomas as a spirited older woman who decides to befriend and adopt an orphan (Thomas) to keep him out of trouble. Based on the clever novel by Clyde Edgerton, WALKING ACROSS EGYPT brings the story of an unlikely, but ultimately healing friendship to life through lively dialogue, strong performances, and realistically flawed characters.
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She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would 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 seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage 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 and witty, down-home and real, Walking Across Egypt...
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Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Burstyn appears in this drama alongside Jonathan Taylor Thomas as a spirited older woman who decides to befriend and adopt an orphan (Thomas) to keep him out of trouble. Based on the clever novel by Clyde Edgerton, WALKING ACROSS EGYPT brings the story of an unlikely, but ultimately healing friendship to life through lively dialogue, strong performances, and realistically flawed characters.
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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 & CONSTITUTIONShe 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.
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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...
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Walking Across Egypt (ballantine Reader's Circle) (reprint) (paperback),ballantine Reader's Circle
Walking Across Egypt (ballantine Reader's Circle) (reprint) (paperback),ballantine Reader's Circle - By Clyde Edgerton
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Books. Walking Across Egypt
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Walking Across Egypt : A Novel by Clyde Edgerton More New Books
We found 60 used copies, 2 new copies, and 3 collectible copies of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9780912697512)
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She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would 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 seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage 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 and witty, down-home and real, Walking Across Egypt is a...
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Edgerton, Clyde. WALKING ACROSS EGYPT. A Novel. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1987. Blue cloth. Dust jacket. 217 pp. Sm 8vo. 1st edition. SIGNED. F/NF (price blacked-ou/faint diagonal crease to upper corner of rear flap/sp sunned).
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We found 106 used copies, 9 new copies, and 3 collectible copies of this book. (Show all copies of ISBN 9780345346490)
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Mattie Rigsbee, seventy-eight and set in her ways, decides to help out Wesley Benfield, a troubled adolescent just out of reform school for car theft
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