Readers of Harrington's previous installments of the Stay More saga will recognize the old familiar stomping ground. But the stompers this time are insectile.
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In a "wonderfully irreverent comic novel," Harington writes of the cockroach community of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More. Despite some archness, "the story contains suspense, romance, heroism, skulduggery and religious philosophizing, in a highly risible mix," wrote PW.
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A truly captivating and appealing book. -- The New York Times
Surprising and funny and frequently brilliant. -- The Washington Post --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Surprising and funny and frequently brilliant. -- The Washington Post --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Donald Harington was one of America's greatest writers of fiction. His fifteen novels have been called jubilant, lyrical, foxy, captivating, delicate, bawdy, playful, reckless, joyful, courageous. Set in the fictional hamlet of Stay More, Arkansas, Harington's stories blend myth, dreamscape and sharply observed speech and manners to depict a rich, eccentric, rural society. All fifteen novels--from the classic Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, to the redemptive Choiring of the Trees, the love story With and the concluding novel Enduring, published just two months before Mr. Harington's death-- are now available as The Complete Novels of Donald Harington, a must-have collection for all those who wish to read the very best, authentic, contemporary American writing.
"The quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary US letters." -Boston Globe
"Harington is hooked into the deepest traditions of storytelling, dipping his buckets directly into the well it all comes from, pursuing a literature dedicated not to documentation or self-expression, but to fascination, to lifting us out of ourselves and the dailiness of our lives -- to making our world again wondrous and large." --Los Angeles Times
"Totally satisfying... Harington reveres the most ordinary aspects of the lives of unexceptional people...he makes his joy infectious." --Time Magazine
Donald Harington (1935 -2009) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and spent nearly all of his childhood summers in the Ozark mountain hamlet of Drakes Creek, his mother's hometown, where his grandparents operated the general store and post office. There, before he lost his hearing to meningitis at the age of twelve, he listened carefully to the vanishing Ozark dialect and the old tales told by local storytellers. He published his first novel in 1965, and fourteen more for a total of fifteen, most of them set in the Ozark hamlet of his own creation, Stay More, loosely based on Drakes Creek. Acclaimed by critics as "an undiscovered continent," "America's Chaucer," and "one of the most powerful, subtle and inventive novelists in America," Harington was the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Award, the Porter Prize, the Heasley Prize, and the Oxford American Lifetime Achievement Award.
"The quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary US letters." -Boston Globe
"Harington is hooked into the deepest traditions of storytelling, dipping his buckets directly into the well it all comes from, pursuing a literature dedicated not to documentation or self-expression, but to fascination, to lifting us out of ourselves and the dailiness of our lives -- to making our world again wondrous and large." --Los Angeles Times
"Totally satisfying... Harington reveres the most ordinary aspects of the lives of unexceptional people...he makes his joy infectious." --Time Magazine
Donald Harington (1935 -2009) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and spent nearly all of his childhood summers in the Ozark mountain hamlet of Drakes Creek, his mother's hometown, where his grandparents operated the general store and post office. There, before he lost his hearing to meningitis at the age of twelve, he listened carefully to the vanishing Ozark dialect and the old tales told by local storytellers. He published his first novel in 1965, and fourteen more for a total of fifteen, most of them set in the Ozark hamlet of his own creation, Stay More, loosely based on Drakes Creek. Acclaimed by critics as "an undiscovered continent," "America's Chaucer," and "one of the most powerful, subtle and inventive novelists in America," Harington was the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Award, the Porter Prize, the Heasley Prize, and the Oxford American Lifetime Achievement Award.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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stylistically and entomologically wonderful,
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This review is from: Cockroaches of Stay More: A Novel (Hardcover)
As a refugee from roach-infested Houston, I never thought I'd have a reason to admire the little buggers. Donald Harington has almost given me a reason to like 'em--and, better, a reason to look up more books written by Donald Harington. His view of an Arkansas town infested with Bible-busting bugs managed to be both biting and touching (and nastily familiar to those of us assaulted by similar humans). And, I now know there's more to cockroach physiology than that ugly crunching sound under your shoe.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Cockroaches of Stay More (Paperback)
Anyone who has read "Tess of the d'Urbevilles" will instantly recognize the plotline of this fable about a roosterroach (never "cockroach") maiden who is ... well, read it for yourself. I was enthralled by the title, then enthralled by the book. Author Donald Harington lost his hearing at age twelve, but his agile, retentive mind has accurately retained the inflections and pronunciations of his native Arkansas mountains. The book is witty, scary, insightful, and great fun as well as being a deeply philosophical book on relationships; both Man and Roosterroach. It is, as another reviewer stated, impossible to adequately review this book as it fits into many categories, or into a category of its own. Buy it.
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the cockroaches of stay more,
By Dawn Johnson (Murphy, NC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Cockroaches of Stay More (Paperback)
This book, picked at random off an Arkansas surplus book shelf many years ago has to have been one of the funniest books I've ever read. Great satire, on par with Patrick McManus and Two Fathoms.
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