Coasters
A novel
Gerald Duff
NewSouth Books
Montgomery
Also by Gerald Duff
Novels
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That’s All Right, Mama: The Unauthorized Life of Elvis’s Twin
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Non-Fiction
William Cobbett and the Politics of Earth
Letters of William Cobbett
NewSouth Books
P.O. Box 1588
Montgomery, AL 36102
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright 2001 by Gerald Duff. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by NewSouth Books, a division of NewSouth, Inc., Montgomery, Alabama.
ISBN-13: 9781588380296
ebook ISBN: 9781603062268
LCCN: 2001031479
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This book is in memory of Addison Irwin,
Wallace Kay, Robert Daniel, and Terry Brown,
absent friends.
And for my children,
Audrey and Stuart,
blocks off the old chip.
Contents
Gravity sliding is the downslope movement of part of the Earth’s crust. This mechanism appears to be responsible for many observed extensive, low-angle faults. The phenomenon
