Walking Across Egypt
She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt–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...
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She has as much business keeping a stray dog as she would walking across Egypt–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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780345419071 (0345419073)
Publish date: June 23rd 1997
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 215
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Travel,
Humor,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Adult,
Family,
Contemporary,
Southern
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