Walking across Egypt a novel

"She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would waking 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 age seventy-eight, might be slowing down just a bit. When teenage delinquent Wesley...

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Main Author: Edgerton, Clyde
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: NY: Ballantine, 2004.
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100 1 |a Edgerton, Clyde. 
245 1 0 |a Walking across Egypt :  |b a novel /  |c Clyde Edgerton. 
260 |a NY:  |b Ballantine,  |c 2004. 
300 |a 228 p. 
500 |a Includes 'A Reader's Guide'. 
520 0 |a "She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would waking 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 age 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 Mattie's mouth-watering pound cake."--Page 4 of cover. 
650 0 |a Grandmothers  |v Fiction. 
650 0 0 |a Friendship  |v Fiction. 
651 0 |a Southern States  |v Fiction. 
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