Clyde Edgerton has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 13 narrators. The most-rated is Walking Across Egypt.
Raney
Summary
Clyde Edgerton’s ear for regional voices and his eye for life’s small but significant details enable him to create characters who are charming and utterly convincing. Beginning with an engagement announcement and ending with the birth of a son, Raney is a snapshot of the first few years of a modern Southern marriage. Newly married, Raney is a Southern Baptist who has lived her whole life in her tiny home town. Her husband, Charles, is a newcomer, a liberal raised in Atlanta. Amidst family traditions, curious relatives, and bowls of macaroni salad, their search for common ground begins. As Raney tells us about Charles’ beliefs and habits, and thus reveals her own, her honesty and gumption will capture your heart and tickle your funny bone. Narrator Ruth Ann Phimister’s soft voice beautifully captures the emotional tides that rise and fall in Raney’s life.
©1985 Clyde Edgerton (P)1998 Recorded Books, LLC
The Bible Salesman
Summary
A musician and songwriter, Clyde Edgerton has penned multiple best-sellers and has had five of his novels named New York Times Notable Books. In The Bible Salesman, Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid that he's an FBI spy. And before Henry knows what's up, he finds himself in way over his head with no apparent way out.
©2008 Clyde Edgerton (P)2008 Recorded Books
In Memory of Junior
Summary
In Summerlin, North Carolina, it is - quite literally - a race to the finish. Glenn and Laura Bales lie dying in the same house, and although Laura is more interested in her Whitman’s Sampler chocolates, and Glenn in whatever happened to his first wife, Evelyn, their children have their eyes unswervingly fixed on the inheritance. Who will get the money, and what it will mean for this unusual little Southern community is a richly comic novel about endings.
©1992 Clyde Edgerton (P)2000 Recorded Books, LLC
The Floatplane Notebooks
Summary
The Copeland family history is rich and ambiguous. Beginning with patriarch Walker and his wife Caroline, who once threatened a troop of Yankee soldiers with a pan of boiling water, the Copeland legacy continues with Walker’s great grandson, Albert, who builds floatplanes that never fly. Albert’s floatplane logbook becomes a family album, with each member of the family penning in his personal revelations, from Meredith, a maverick Vietnam veteran, to Noralee, who shocks everyone by dating a hippie.
©1988 Clyde Edgerton (P)1993 Recorded Books, LLC
Enter Stage Write: Stories to Enjoy While We Wait in the Wings
Summary
These 15 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. 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 Randall "Stars of Stage" and Screen by Joel Perry "A Ring of Truth" by K. Robert Campbell "8 Minutes, 20 Seconds" by Josh Bailey "John Willis Hostler" by Skip Maloney "Potty Stop Perils or The Trials and Tribulations of Public Restrooms" by Charlotte Hackman "The Sarpy County Incident" by Kenneth Vest "Emma’s Mission" by Shawn C. Sproatt "Smiles in Stormsville" by Kim Henry "Coppy" by Gwenyfar "Discovery" by Eduard Schmidt-Zorner "A Quiet, Decent Place" by Anne Russell "Grenadine", the Kudzu Queen by Wiley Cash "Ace" by Philip Gerard "Arrival and Departure" by Clyde Edgerton Full cast of narrators includes Jay Zadeh, Amanda Young, and Brett J. Young.
©2020 Storytellers for Stages (P)2020 Storytellers for Stages
Walking Across Egypt
Summary
Best-selling author Clyde Edgerton blends a comfy Southern setting and quirky characters into an unforgettable journey through a spirited senior citizen's world. Filled with the details of everyday life, this novel evokes the homespun wisdom and offbeat humor that have become Edgerton's trademark. Meet Mattie Rigsby, 78, who keeps a clean house and bakes the best pound cake in Listre, North Carolina. Her children grown, she lives a comfortable and independent life. Her orderly days are about to be disrupted, however, by a stray. Unkempt and unloved, teenaged and delinquent, Wesley Benfield just might need a piece of her apple pie and a verse or two of "Walking Across Egypt", her favorite hymn. As Mattie and Wesley come together, she will fill your heart with appreciation for a generation who still remembers that life is a lot better when it's filled with good food and good manners.
©1987 Clyde Edgerton (P)1997 Recorded Books, LLC