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Title: Where
trouble sleeps
Author: Clyde Edgerton
Genre: fiction/humor
Rating: 
Stephen Toomey and Jack Umstead are the two main characters of this fine little
story. Stephen is a six-years old boy who lives in Listre and Jack is a 57 years
old misfit passing through town on his way to probably con yet another innocent.
By an incident where Inky, Stephen's kitten is injured they get to know each
other and Jack comes in contact with people without his usual criminal intent
behind the communication.
Other people have some say in the book too; there's Alease Toomey, mother of
Stephen, her brother, Mrs. Weams, Cheryl, the Blaine sisters (watch out for
them!), to name a few. They all make a
colorful Southern town and a funny, yet serious, story.
What's so good about this book is, it doesn't pretend to be big, to have big and
heavy themes. It is just a good story, told by Edgerton with great knowledge of
the human kind and a good style.
I liked Walking across Egypt better,
but that doesn't mean this one isn't good. I enjoyed myself a lot reading it.
If
you liked this book, you should try:
Floatplane
notebooks, the
Killer
Diller
Walking across Egypt
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