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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Loud, hard-drinking truck driver Thomas Wayne Sweatt wants his twin sons, born in 1946, to be the strongest and smartest in North Carolina, so he and his wife name one boy Jack Dempsey ("Lucky") Sweatt, and the other Thomas Edison Sweatt.
2) Rock of ages
Author
Series
A McCain novel volume 2
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Littlejohn (1992), the author's first novel, Littlejohn McCain has been dead for more than a decade. His daughter, Georgia, is now a university professor, a widow, and a divorcee, preparing for the long, gentle slide toward the end of her life. But when her cousin Jenny dies, and Georgia returns home to the North Carolina town of East Geddie, she not only discovers there's a murder mystery to be solved but also experiences, quite...
3) Littlejohn
Author
Series
A McCain novel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
An 82-year-old North Carolina farmer tries to accept his past. Widower Littlejohn McCain sees no point in living any longer. His grown daughter in Virginia doesn't need him; his senses are failing. But he can't commit suicide: God would never forgive him, and what he most wants is forgiveness. He goes out in the midday sun hoping that ``the monkey''--heatstroke--will get him, and while he waits, reviews his life. From this seemingly conventional setup...
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