fifteen original stories, donated by authors to help keep local theater alive, are fun, quirky, imaginative, and bold the perfect way to tide over audiences until local stage curtains can once again rise! Each tale turns the spotlight on some unusual snapshot of life or imagination.
Your purchase of this book will help local theaters survive and eventually thrive despite this most unfortunate "intermission, " With new shows and the resumption of those shows forced to pause during the pandemic casts and crews will be once again ready to entertain you, and to bring the laughter and applause back to our stages and our lives.
Until then, sit back, let us entertain you, and know that your purchase has made a big difference for local artists, . . while we all wait in the wings, Includes the following stories: Very, Very by Melissa RandallStars of Stage and Screen by Joel PerryA Ring of Truth by K, Robert CampbellMinutes,Seconds by Josh BaileyJohn Willis Hostler by Skip MaloneyPotty Stop Perils or The Trials and Tribulations of Public Restrooms by Charlotte HackmanThe Sarpy County Incident by Kenneth VestEmma's Mission by Shawn C.
SproattSmiles in Stormsville by Kim HenryCoppy by GwenyfarDiscovery by Eduard SchmidtZornerA Quiet, Decent Place by Anne RussellGrenadine, the Kudzu Queen by Wiley CashAce by Philip GerardArrival and Departure by Clyde Edgerton Clyde Edgerton is widely considered one of the premier novelists working in the Southern tradition today, often compared with such masters as Eudora Welty and Flannery OConnor.
Although most of his books deal with adult concerns marriage, aging, birth and death Edgertons work is most profoundly about family, In books such as Raney, Walking Across Egypt, The Floatplane Notebooks, and Killer Diller, Edgerton explores the dimensions of family life, using an endearing if eccentric cast of characters.
Edgertons characters, writes Mary Lystad in Twentieth Century Young Adult Writers, have faults than most, but they also have considerable virtues, and they are so likable that you want to invite them over for a cup of coffee, a piece Clyde Edgerton is widely considered one of the premier novelists working in the Southern tradition today,
often compared with such masters as Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor.
Although most of his books deal with adult concerns marriage, aging, birth and death Edgerton's work is most profoundly about family, In books such as Raney, Walking Across Egypt, The Floatplane Notebooks, and Killer Diller, Edgerton explores the dimensions of family life, using an endearing if eccentric cast of characters.
"Edgerton's characters," writes Mary Lystad in Twentieth Century Young Adult Writers, "have faults than most, but they also have considerable virtues, and they are so likable that you want to invite them over for a cup of coffee, a piece of homemade apple pie, and a nice long chat.
"Raised in the small towns of the North Carolina Piedmont, Edgerton draws heavily on the storytelling traditions of the rural south in his novels.
Without the distractions of big city life and the communications revolution of the late twentieth century, many rural Americans stayed in close touch with their relatives, and often shared stories about family members with each other for entertainment.
Among Edgertons awards are: Guggenheim Fellowship Lyndhurst Prize Honorary Doctorates from UNC Asheville and St, Andrews Presbyterian College membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers the North Carolina Award for Literature and five notable book awards from the New York Times.
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