Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1997. BI3 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamp on the top outside paper edges plus the dust jacket endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve with the usual library label on the spine that wraps around onto the back plus the endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A story set in a very small North Carolina town. Progress is in the making. After a heads-on mule and truck collision, the state highway department is petitioned for a blinker light. This ends putting the small town on the map and soon outsiders are passing through. One of them, driving a stolen car, decides to take a cabin at a moter hotel there. It is the story of what happens when rootless amorality meets up with deep-rooted moral flexibility. By the author of "Raney" and "Walking Across Egypt." 261p. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

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Seller: Bookmarc's (US)
Seller's Inventory #: SCW04180
Title: Where Trouble Sleeps
Author: Edgerton, Clyde
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 1565120612
ISBN 13: 9781565120617
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Place of Publication: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: Fiction Literary Fiction Literature North Carolina Morality Small Town Life Outsiders Southern US Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Modern Fiction Firsts; Fiction / Southern US Fiction;
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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