Donald Harington

Donald Harington

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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.

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Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns Nov 29, 2011

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The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks (Stay More) Aug 4, 2011

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Butterfly Weed (Stay More series) Aug 4, 2011

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Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More) Aug 4, 2011

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The Nearly Complete Works of Donald Harington Volume 2 Nov 20, 2012

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The Cherry Pit Aug 4, 2011

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The Nearly Complete Works of Donald Harington Volume 3 Nov 20, 2012

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The Nearly Complete Works of Donald Harington Volume 1 Nov 20, 2012

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When Angels Rest (Stay More) Aug 4, 2011

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The Choiring Of The Trees (Stay More) Aug 4, 2011

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The Pitcher Shower (Stay More) Aug 4, 2011

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Thirteen Albatrosses: (or, Falling off the Mountain) (Stay More) Aug 4, 2011

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