Overpass - Softcover

Ledford, Jack

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ISBN 10: 0887394647 ISBN 13: 9780887394645

Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co, 2003

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A slice of down-home life in and around Reedville, Alabama, "Overpass" serves up small town espionage. Based on a true story, author Jack Ledford has changed the names to protect the innocent- as well as the guilty and the shy.

It seems that the tracks leading up to a railroad crossing are delaying traffic. School kids are getting home late and parents are not happy. Worse yet, hard-to-see oncoming trains have killed a few local drivers. The solution - build a street overpass above the railroad tracks. But the country-fried skullduggery of rural southern politics makes getting an overpass built anything but easy. Tom Eske, local surveyor, desperately wants the overpassbuilt. Sharing his desire and his bed is school bus driver Amona Taiyah, the earthy lady who Tom would have as his wife. Convincing Amona to marry him is about as hard a task as getting that confounded overpass erected.

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About the Author

JACK LEDFORD was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. Now retired, he lives with his wife in Alabama. "Overpass" is his first book.

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PREFACE
Uncle Ed’s motto hangs by the fireplace in my studio:
"Nothing succeeds like dumb luck!"

He once teed off on a par-three hole, the ball took a rotten slice, hit a working mule on the forehead, bounced over a sand trap, and trickled down the green to a hole in one.

They don’t use mules any more on golf courses, and steam engines have disappeared from railroads.

All government is local, said Tip O’Neill, and everyone says you can’t beat city hall. We just proved that nobody could beat our city hall. It took a little time and conniving, but our city hall won. Maybe it won too much, more than it wanted, but won.

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