In memory of Junior : a novel / Clyde Edgerton.
| Author/creator | Edgerton, Clyde, 1944- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Joyner Roberts Coll. copy 30372017032209 Advance uncorrected proofs. |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992. |
| Description | 215 pages ; 19 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | Go by the Baptist Cemetery in Summerlin any Sunday after church and you'll see all kinds of families out there weeding and sweeping the family plots. There's always lots to do - dumping out the potted poinsettias and dusting off the plastic peonies, making sure the kids know everybody dead and how they are kin to everybody living. To most folks, which cemetery, which family plot, which tombstone and what's carved on it are of consequence. And the older you are, the more so. In the Bales-McCord family, two old people are at the point of contemplating their final resting places - Glenn and Laura Bales. Everybody is wondering which one will go first. A third old person looking death in the eye is Uncle Grove McCord, hell-raising, bootlegging, bush pilot, black sheep brother of Glenn Bales's first wife. Grove left Summerlin years ago and has buried several wives. He's got a good healthy one now out in Arkansas. But he pines for Summerlin where he was raised and is making his own private arrangements to be buried there. "Hell," he says, "I can't be buried beside all my wives." Clyde Edgerton fans won't be surprised that the characters in his funny new novel end up with too many graves and too few tombstones. It all happens within the space of just a couple of weeks and it's told by everybody involved, from Buster Douglas, the Truck Freight Limited driver who delivers Uncle Grove's tombstone to Wilma and Harold Fuller, Visitors-to-the-Sick. Join them as they gather in Summerlin to attend to the business of passing on - and passing down. As Uncle Grove points out, "You're history longer than you are fact." |
| Local note | Joyner Roberts Collection copy 30372017032209 autographed on title page "Clyde Edgerton." |
| Digital Bookplate | Bookplate for Catherine Billingsley |
| Other forms | Also issued online. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Roberts copy 30372017032209 Gift of Catherine Billingsley |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Edgerton, Clyde, 1944- In memory of Junior. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992 |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Humorous fiction. |
| LCCN | 92015188 |
| ISBN | 1565120108 |
| ISBN | 9781565120105 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | NC Roberts | PS3555.D47 I5 | ✔ Available | Request Material |
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3555.D47 I5 1992 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |
| Joyner | NC Roberts | PS3555.D47 I5 1992 | ✔ Available | Request Material |