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? A writer's conference writhing with reptiles. A mysterious death. Gross dressing. An encounter with Robert James Waller. A family values brush arbor revival. Not to mention 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 ...
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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? A writer's conference writhing with reptiles. A mysterious death. Gross dressing. An encounter with Robert James Waller. A family values brush arbor revival. Not to mention 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.
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Seller's Description:
Fine. No Jacket. A serial novel by 17 North Carolina writers. Edited by David Perkins and with first and final chapters by Clyde Edgerton. Signed by Perkins and by 16 of the 17 contributors, including Edgerton, Lee Smith, Kaye Gibbons, Jill McCorkle and Fred Chappll. Fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. BY4-Book has some crease on the gutters, label on the front top right corner, lightly bumped on some corners, and light shelf wear otherwise very good. Signed by Tim McLaurin, David Perkins, Lee Smith, John Welter, Laura Argiri, Michael Chitwood, Marianne Gingher, William McCranor Henderson, Philip Gerard, Jerry Bledsoe, Margaret Maron, David Guy, Clyde Edgerton, and Jaki Shelton Green. Ribald, rowdy, raucous and riveting, this hilarious novel is unlike any other you're ever apt to read. A serial novel by 17 of North Carolina's writers: Clyde Edgerton, Lee Smith, Fred Chappell, David Guy, Tim McLaurin, Jill McCorkle, William McCranor Henderson, Kaye Gibbons, Jerry Bledsoe, Margaret Maron, Philip Gerard, Marianne Gingher, Bland Simpson, Laura Argiri, John Welter, Jaki Shelton Green, and Michael Chitwood.