Days of Little Texas (31 page)

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Nelson, R. A. (Russell A.)
Days of Little Texas/ R. A. Nelson. — 1st ed.
    p. cm.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Ronald Earl Pettway, who has been a charismatic evangelist since he was ten years old, is about to preach at a huge revival meeting on the grounds of an old plantation, where, with help from the ghost of a girl he could not heal, he becomes engaged in an epic battle between good and evil.
eISBN: 978-0-375-85361-6

[1. Evangelists—Fiction. 2. Ghosts—Fiction. 3. Christian life—Fiction. 4. Slavery-Fiction. 5. Good and evil—Fiction. 6. Supernatural—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.N43586Day 2009
[Fic]—dc22
2008033855

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