Walking across Egypt
Subtitle: a novel
By: Clyde Edgerton.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Grandmothers -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Description: She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt<U+2013>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 book for everyone.