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Clyde Edgerton
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fun remembering the fifties with inspiration and real-life events to draw from in a whimsical way at a stop-in-the-road place which didn't even have one right light. A small town has at least two. Some way, they managed to get a flashing yellow light out in the middle of nowhere. Dominated by the church and its activities, particularly the elderly secretary Dorothea who really thought that Jesus had visited her there in the church one night when she gave him ten dollars.
"Jesus" actually was Jack, a criminal who accidentally found the place and stayed around long enough to cause a bit of mischief at the church and found himself in hot water looking down the barrel of a shotgun. Jesus loves Chuck, but he had a whole of a good time fooling the old woman. Preacher Crenshaw was tempted by a young, shapely woman, a sex kitten of sorts with loose scrumples. He thought foolishly like old men tend to do tht she sorshipped him. In fact, he felt that way about all of the good-looking women, but he tried to deflect the worship of himself toward God and Jesus. Saving lost souls, bringing "lost sheep" to Jesus Christ was dead serious business, involving eternal life in heaven or hell. His onerous plump wife was a burden he had to bear, so as to appear humble. There were lots of prayers and hymn singing as in all tiny churches all over America.
The motel where Jack made his headquarters was identical to one I always wanted to explore in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, birthplace of Senator and actor Fred Thompson. There was an office, and little one-room cabins for the tired and weary to rest. You must read the joke about remembering; it is worth a thousand dollars. "In spite of illness, one can remain alive past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
This was the kind of delightful "nonsense" incidents which Sam Venable would write. It takes an expert writer to carry it off. Clyde Edgerton also wrote WALKING ACROSS EGYPT which was turned into a funny, clever movie. He is a native Southerner, which means he's extra special.
Entertaining, but.......2002-05-08 What was the purpose of the story? It kept me entertained on a flight to the UK, but if the in flight entertainment system had been working, I'm not sure if I would have finished it.
The version I read had questions for discussion which I found interesting, unfortunately, my book club was unable to find any meaningful answers to the questions raised.
Throughout the book he wrote little blurbs about characters living in the town or near by. You expect them to have some relevance to the story, but they are never heard from again. It's almost as if these blurbs were put in to meet a page quota.
I'm not usually a book snob, but I would turn my nose up at this one.
Where Trouble Sleeps is a wonderful book!.......2002-03-03 It was great! The characters are so funny and the story is charming. It is easily one of the best books I've read in a long time. I would definitely recommend it!
Humorous scenes illuminate small town story.......2000-12-09 Of all of Edgerton's novels I've read so far, this was my least favorite, although there are portions that entertained me. In small town Listre in the 50's, 7 year old Stephen's life is unremarkable except for occasional oddities, such as his mother taking him and a friend to see the electric chair (for a deterrent) and the arrival of the mysterious "gypsy man," Delbert Jones (re name: Jack Umbaugh) whose slealth gets him into town but can't get him out.
Edgerton's live reading from this book was the most entertaining author reading I have been lucky enough to attend--he read in character, played the banjo, and made the scenes he presented come to life. I was a bit disappointed that the whole novel didn't live up to the promise of the portions he shared aloud.
For a better sample of his work, read Walking Across Egypt, Raney, and The Floatplane Notebooks.
AN AFFECTIONATE LAMPOON OF FOIBLES AND SPOOFS.......2000-09-23 Clyde Edgerton is a first-rate story teller. With well honed wit at the ready he lampoons foibles and spoofs the self-righteous. All of this is done with affection and bemused understanding.
In Raney, his debut novel, Mr. Edgerton displayed a remarkable ability to capture the Southern voice. He continues to do so, much to the delight of his ever growing readership.
Where Trouble Sleeps , Mr. Edgerton's seventh story, returns to Listre, a fictional name for the author's hometown. Inhabited by unforgettable eccentrics, Listre is a North Carolina bump in the road recently bisected by a blinking red and yellow light. The eccentrics come with Edgerton territory; the light is the result of a mule-truck head-on.
With Wednesday evening church meetings and 25 cent Friday night movies, Listre, in 1950, is viewed by its fundamental Baptist citizens as a good place to settle. Their spiritual guide is Preacher Crenshaw, a staunch believer who is sorely tested. First, his young son, Paul, is tempted by the devil. The boy "has misused his sex....in ways that do not respect his body." A pious yet practical man, Preacher Crenshaw leads Paul in prayers of repentance, then orders, "Now son, stand up, pull down your pants and turn around."
Next, his devout secretary, Mrs. Claude T. Clark, who has sprained her ankle, takes up residence in the church office, where she over medicates, thanks God for all His blessings, including the Milky Way, and is visited by Jesus, who needs a little money for "a fruit pie and Pepsi."
These vexations are nothing compared to the specter of lust aroused in Preacher Crenshaw by teenaged Cheryl Daniels. When he prays for release from this temptation, an unresponsive deity does not shake his faith: "He'd not felt an answer from God in the middle of the night, but he expected one the next morning." Listre is a God-fearing town and prayer will prevail.
This crossroads community is seen differently by Jack Umstead who arrives in a stolen Buick Eight. To him, "Whole place looked settled, ripe, timid, kind of stupid. Just right." Deciding to stay for a few days, Jack begins to ingratiate himself with the townspeople, hoping to discover where money might be hidden.
Sitting on a bench outside the gas station called "Train's Place," Jack hears of the Blaine sisters, proprietors of a chicken and ice store. Frightened by thunder storms, the aging spinsters flee their store during heavy rains to seek safety with their married sister. That's an ideal set-up for this mustachioed conman.
As he waits for dark clouds to gather, Jack becomes acquainted with others. He seduces the naive Cheryl, and is attracted to Alease Toomey, 6-year-old Stephen's mother. At her house, in addition to the asthmatic spoiled Stephen, he finds drunk Uncle Raleigh, a World War I veteran, who tears a medicine chest off the wall while battling a bath.
Mr. Edgerton's smooth segues from one narrator to another enrich his story's tapestry. He not only echoes their voices, he inhabits their minds and hearts. There is Mrs. Toomey taking her son and his friend to see the electric chair "so you all can see what will happen if you ever let the Devil lead you into a bad sin." Without seeing the chair with straps on its arms, young Stephen already has things pretty well figured out - after all, his mother reads to him every night from "Aunt Margaret's Bible Stories."
There are more colorful characters who could only spring full-blown from the mind of this greatly gifted author. Mr. Edgerton couples their voices with his considerable narrative skills as he builds to a tragicomic denouement. He has a musician's ear, an artist's eye, and a generous heart. Clyde Edgerton is quite simply superb.
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Apprenez l'Amérique ! (en allemand)
Apprenez l'Amérique ! (en allemand)
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and selfish than understanding. I am now questioning why those two even got together in the first place! Oh right, it's a novel!
I love to read about small town life ~~ no matter what part of the country they live in ~~ and I love reading about family relationships. This book falls flat on everything except Raney's relationship with her family. That made the book more tolerable to read this time.
The "N" word bothers me but I know that was how people talked back then ~~ so it's not offensive to me in that sense. I understand that it is a reflection of the times and the area which this book was written in. I am not saying I agree with it but it can be disturbing at times. What really disturbs me is Raney's automatic judgment of anyone who doesn't think like her and Charles' rigidity in trying not to be like his "redneck" inlaws.
It can be a charming book ~~ but apparently, my reading tastes have evolved in the last 12 years or so ~~ so this book isn't as charming as I found it to be then.
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"N" word is used.......2006-09-07 Has anyone noticed Raney uses the "N" word in the section beginning on page 116? That opens a whole can of worms. I live in the South and must say that Raney is a "blabber-mouth!" Raney needs to gain some self-control. She needs to face herself and think, which she obviously hasn't done. Is she funny? Yes, absolutely! I've laughed out loud! But is she over the line? Yes. Do I recommend this to everyone. No. The "N" word section is offensive and uncalled for.
Y'all just don't get it.......2006-07-31 I laughed out loud all through the book. Those who have been offended just don't get it - and I don't expect them to. You'd have to live in North Carolina or any part of the South to really appreciate the humor. I'm not defending ignorance, racism or intolerance by saying I like the book. What I'm saying is that Edgerton has an authentic ear for small town Southern folk in the mid-seventies. He makes the situations a bit more ridiculous but still relateable, and he does so to make a point. Many of us see the world as little beyond the town we grew up in, or the state line for that matter. Charles tries to force Raney to expand her thinking beyond "that's the way it's always been, and that's good enough for me." She changes only a little by the end of the novel, but she does change. I also get the idea that she and Charles will continue to work together to love and understand each other while each trying to broaden the other's point of view, and that, I believe is Edgerton's point in writing the book.
easy to read southern lit .......2005-11-19 Raney centers around a young southern woman recently married to an intellectual musician who is both amused by her naivety and frustrated by her southern beliefs and logic. Raney is just a sweet old fashioned girl who loves her unconventional family, likes to sing, and is cautiously aware of her husband's loathing and criticism for the things she says and does. All in all her strong will, laid back ease, and her humorous ways can not be swayed and she teaches her beau a lesson of being true to oneself. Raney is different from other books because its just funny. Edgerton is writing above all a comedy on how different people's views can be. I just love the expressions that Raney uses to describe her thoughts and the way her family just assumes things such as her uncle who in their opinion was made to be a drunk, while Raney's husband examines his psychosis and diagnoses him with depression and stress disorder. Edgerton is not at all making fun of southerners here. If anything he demonstrates how deep family ties are and how loyal members are to each other. Edgerton's books are very easy to read and should be in the same genre as perhaps Fanny Flagg whom I also loved. Please check out this book if you can. Its a light and humerous book about the ups and downs of a young marriage.
Comic Novel Wears Well Despite Seventies Topicality.......2005-10-12 I am always happy to recommend Clyde Edgerton's RANEY to people looking for a handle on southern life and folkways. There are two sides to this zestfully written encounter about a small-town Freewill Baptist who marries a liberal from Atlanta: one is the fun of its 1970s topicality, by now of more historical interest than anything else. (Charles, Raney's husband, founds a group called TEA for "Thrifty Energy Alternatives," but runs up against Mr. Tolliver and other elders at Raney's church who studied things out themselves and concluded that the power company must know what it is doing. These are the same gentleman who concluded that Jesus could turn water into grape juice but not wine.)
The second, equally endearing and more enduring aspect to this novel is Raney and Charles' struggles to weather the first year of their married life, especially in view of their stunned realization that when a couple marries, they also marry each other's families. "Charles' mother asked me if I had read any of the latest bestsellers," commits Raney to her diary. "I just told her the Bible was the biggest bestseller of all time and always would be. She [and her husband] just looked at me."
There are many readers who have found the book's depiction of racist, working-class southerners to be beyond the pale. Rarely this is due to sympathy for real southerners, or or some feeling that the book's stereotyping went to far. Raney's older relatives mouth opinions and attitudes that are racist and reactionary, but sadly true to their time. Emphasis on the "real." Poor Charles has to storm off from the dinner table more than once when confronted with the compound provinciality of Raney's relatives. But this is a relatively small aspect of the book. My tendency is to give it a break; satire doesn't always sit well but comic realism should be open to everyone, even a "minority" like Charles' friend from Vietnam.
So while times are changed, lovers and their quarrels haven't always. Most people love RANEY and I am one of them!
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- A healthy dose of military aviation insights.
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When Clyde Edgerton was four years old, his mother took him to a local airport to see the airplanes. Eighteen years later, she would take him to the same airport to catch a plane to Texas for Air Force pilot training. She’d been his first passenger when he got his aviator’s license. She’d supported his decision to join the Air Force. All the same, she wished he’d kept up his piano lessons instead.
But Truma Edgerton’s only son had fallen in love with flying, and had fallen hard. His plan was to pilot the newest, sleekest, fastest aircraft available. The first time he soloed in a jet, he felt “a strange pride and power.” By then, the only access to the cockpits of fighter jets was via the war in Vietnam. So he spent a year flying combat reconnaissance over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and he won the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Back at home, he took up another passion—writing. By and by, he bought himself his own airplane, a Piper Super Cruiser that he named <em>Annabelle</em>. Now, thirty years after Vietnam, Clyde Edgerton looks back at his youthful passion for flying, at the joy he took in mastering it, at the exhilaration—and lingering anguish—of combat flight.
<em>Solo</em> is a story told with empathy and humor—and with searing honesty that will reson
Apprenez l'Amérique ! (coffret 3 CD)
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g as a professor of creative writing and should know better.
In short, a more accurate title would have been: SOLO: MY SINGLE INTERESTING ADVENTURE IN THE AIR.
An Insight into the Dream of Flight.......2006-03-24 This book is probably the best written book I have read this year. It is an example of a book written by someone who knows their subject matter well. Edgerton has a way of making you feel as though you are a fly on the wall of the cockpit.
He used this skill to guide us through his flying years, be it when he was watching planes at the local airport or when he was commanding pilot over the jungles of Vietnam.
I would recommend this book for anyone who has an interest in aviation or good writing. I particularily enjoyed this book because I have an interest inflight and it is always great to hear and read about someone who has done something with the dream.
This is one great book.
Interesting book, not only for flight enthusiasts.......2005-12-05
I read this book because I love Edgerton's novels and hoped to gain insight into the author's life and writing. The book did not fulfill this hope. It's not an autobiography-it's the story of Edgerton's love affair with flying at different stages of his life. However, even though the book did not provide me with what I had hoped, I enjoyed it and recommend it to others.
The book is thematically divided into four parts. The first describes Edgerton's training to be a fighter pilot and his growing obsession with flight. It starts with a trip to an airport at age four and ends when Edgerton is sent oversees as a combat pilot. For me this part was not compelling, because I have no interest in flying. There are long and technical explanations of such things as thrust and trim. In some sections, it reads like a manual. You can skim through this part, just to get a flavor of the training and of the determination that Edgerton had to fly, but it's not of interest to the general public in my opinion.
Next comes a section devoted to Edgerton's combat career in the late sixties and early seventies in Japan (flying nuclear-readiness missions) and then in Vietnam/Laos, flying combat reconnaissance missions. I enjoyed this section very much. Edgerton is able to convey the feeling of control and freedom, the thrill of flying. He also describes the clammy fear of combat. The best section describes a failed recovery attempt of pilots whose aircraft was shot down. Edgerton's description of his growing desperation and sadness as he realizes that nothing can be done for the lost pilots is moving. Edgerton earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for his valiant and persistent efforts to help the downed pilots, despite coming under anti-aircraft fire.
The most interesting aspect of the combat section is the essential theme/conflict of the book. Edgerton gamely faces up to the disconnect between the experiences of the pilots and the result of their actions. For the pilots the Vietnam experience was, by and large, a huge thrill, a power trip and a dream come true. Despite the fear, Edgerton and his fellow pilots loved flying and were empowered by their experiences. They spent precious little time considering the impact of their actions. They never really considered the death and destruction they caused. As a marture adult, Edgerton tries to make sense of this disconnect. He can't resolve the problem, but he engages with it. I was surprised that he was not able to see that governments for millennia (and even now) are able to go to war because they CAN exploit young men's natural thrill seeking and lack of moral experience. It would be much harder to send forty-five year olds to pointless wars <smile>.
The third section of the book deals with Edgerton's flying experiences after he left the air force. I found this section of little interest, but I think a flight enthusiast might feel differently.
In the final section, Edgerton ponders the above mentioned moral conflicts and muses over the nature of courage. This is an excellent section and makes the entire book worth reading. It could and perhaps should have been expanded further.
I enjoyed the book, but it does not compare with the brilliance of Edgerton's novels. In his novels, every word is in place - they are perfectly crafted. This book has too many words and not all of them are needed. There is some humor, but Edgerton's brilliant use of satire is entirely missing.
I was also disappointed that Edgerton chose to share so little of his life with us. Although he mentions his parents frequently, he shares next to nothing about his childhood. Nor do we learn much about his adult life. There are little facts thrown in, but no background with which to interpret them. This weakens the book. Read Tony Hillerman's recent autobiography and you'll see what I mean.
I was a little surprised at Edgerton's lack of engagement with religion, since much of the book is about a moral dilemma. He mentioned being a churchgoer when younger, but devoted no time to what I think must be addressed when thinking about morality and war.
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- Sequel Outshines the Original
- Pretty near as good as Mattie's home cookin'
- Lacked the Mattie Spunk
- KIller Diller Is OK
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"Wonderful...Clyde Edgerton tells us another of his lovely tall tales."
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
Listre, North Carolina, is jumping. The Sears twins, Ted and Ned, who run a Baptist college, have opened Nutrition House for overweight Christians. Meanwhile their Project Promise is busy matching the educationally disadvantaged with wayward youth who want to share their talents. Enter Wesley Benfield, a prime candidate for Project Promise, with a special place in his heart for Baptist songwriting, preaching, and a wide, iron-pumping girl over at the Nutrition House. The Lord only knows where Wesley will go from here....
From the Paperback edition.
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Sequel Outshines the Original.......2004-01-05 Eight years after the events of Walking Across Egypt, Edgerton resumes the story of now twenty-four-year-old Wesley Benfield, ex-con resident of a Baptist halfway house called BOTA (Back On Track Again). This sequel does what few sequels can: it outshines the original. I frequently laughed out loud and near the end, I was moved almost to tears. Edgerton is a Christian who can respectfully mine the foibles and humor of organized religion, specifically of his fellow Baptists, and more specifically of the men running Baptist colleges. The pompous Sears twins, Ted and Ned, are brilliantly drawn in their endless fund-raising and insensitivity to the genuinely disadvantaged. I was so pleased to find out that Mattie Rigsby was still alive at age 86, and that Wesley had promise despite his rocky start. As in Walking Across Egypt, though, Edgerton leaves us with a less than satisfying conclusion. Will Mattie be able to resume taking care of herself? Will Wesley end up back in jail? This time, there's no sequel, at least not yet.
Pretty near as good as Mattie's home cookin'.......2003-06-27 Personally, I liked Raney and Walking Across Egypt better than this one, but it's still pretty damn good. Wesley , the delinquent sort of adopted by Mrs. Mattie Rigsbee in Walking Across Egypt, is now 24, and still a bit of a handful. He's a resident in a Christian halfway house in rural North Carolina. There's a love interest, a band, and there's Vernon, who 'bout steals the show when he appears on the page. And of course Mattie herself, who is older still but still cooking up a storm.
Good story, great author; sequel to follow, surely.
Lacked the Mattie Spunk.......2000-11-03 I anticipated this novel to capture the uniquene
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Creative style but ..........2001-01-27 I read it on a business trip because that's all I had to read, but once I got access to a different book- only a few scant pages from the end, I happily traded it in.
Different but great........1999-04-01 Read it. Not much more to say
Topnotch Light Fare.......1998-11-09 It must be said at the outset that "Redeye" is not only slim but lightweight, and its storyline a fragile structure indeed. Having said that, I have nothing left but praise for this book. Edgerton deftly weaves together an adventurous present in 1892 Colorado, a tragic past from 1857, and a framing text from 1915, by which time historic sites and scenic grandeur have degenerated into new ways to separate the unwary tourist from his money. He draws his characters, from the sweet and naive to the most dastardly, with a light and loving touch. He knows and appreciates his setting, and can instill this appreciation in his readers. He has worthwhile things to say on important matters--multi-ethnic society, the role of archeology, the profit motive--but makes his points without being moralistic or pedantic. And, oh yes, the man can be very funny. Edgerton knows what he's about, and has the talent and humanity do it well. An evening with "Redeye" is time well spent.
Average customer rating:
- Literature at its best!
- My All-Time Favorite
- Southern Lit at its Best
- Pretty Gosh Darn Awful!
- A future classic
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The Floatplane Notebooks (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Clyde Edgerton
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0345419065
Release Date: 2004-09-21 |
Book Description
The Copeland family of Listre, North Carolina, goes back a long way. Each family member has a story to tell, and stories to be told about one another. Albert Copeland, the head of the family, writes it all down in the notebooks he started once to track the progress of the floatplanes he built, though they never did fly. Everything about the Copelands is in these books. And every one of them has his say. Funny and poignant, a family album of talk and tales, The Floatplane Notebooks shares the best-kept secrets of love, loss, and learning to let go.
Customer Reviews:
Literature at its best!.......2006-10-26 The Floatplane Notebooks is one of those rare novels that truly mananges to captivate the reader. The novel, told from different viewpoints of a Southern family, has much to teach us about life, love, and loss.
My All-Time Favorite.......2003-09-06 This is absolutely my favorite book, I truly wish it was my family he was writing about.
Edgerton is by far the best Southern author writing today.
Southern Lit at its Best.......2002-06-04 "The Floatplane Notebooks" tells the story of the Copelands, a typical Southern family that gathers every year to clean up the family cemetery. Using the narrative structure of Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" (a series of single-narrator chapters), the family experiences a devastating event that threatens to unravel the family fabric. In the end, all is well, and powerfully bittersweet.
The story has what is easily one if the funniest scenes I've ever read (regarding a well and a flashlight), and the way the story is resolved at the end is truly touching (the careful reader will see that the two scenes are closely related). Another notable feature is the observations of one of the book's main characters - a wisteria vine. This may seem strange, unless the reader realizes that the vine is essentially the theme of the story, for it represents death (a ubiquitous theme in all great Southern literature). The Copeland family could easily solve the problem of cleaning the family graveyard by just killing the wisteria vine. But, if they do, they then have no real reason to gather every year. This is a family that is united by and finds strength in death.
This is a truly unique and great story, though not appropriate for younger readers. Skilled readers will find much to appreciate. "The Floatplane Notebooks" is Southern Lit at its very best. READ THIS BOOK.
Pretty Gosh Darn Awful!.......1999-08-27 Nothing happens in this awkwardly constructed little book. The characters just talk (for a page or two)...and talk and talk. If you like this sort of thing (plotless yammering) you should hang out at the local diner and listen to the folks carry on.
A future classic.......1999-06-09 I believe this book to be truly underappreciated. Most people tend to think it is just a story about some quirky southern folk. It is that but it is also much more. It is "Our Town" reborn. It should definitely be studied in our classrooms instead of all the novels that are so hard to grasp and seem irrelevent. This one has a meaning to each and everyone of us, no matter how young, old, rich or poor. It is life.
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- Dreary and Dry
- Great humor......great story.
- Down home fun!
- You'll laugh out loud & what's better than that?
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In Memory of Junior
Clyde Edgerton
Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 1565120108 |
Book Description
In the Bales-McCord family there are several old people contemplating their final resting places. Two of them--Glenn and Laura Bales--are in bad shape, and everybody is wondering which one will go first. Join them in Summerlin as they attend to the business of passing on--and passing down. A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB SELEC
Ar brezhoneg didorr, tome 1 (coffret 3 cassettes)
Ar brezhoneg didorr, tome 1 (coffret 3 cassettes)
Authors: Assimil - Collection Langues Régionales
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Release Date: 13 February, 2004
Publisher: Assimil
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