Donald HaringtonWinner of the 2006 Oxford American Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Southern Literature! | |
| The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks Jacob and Noah Ingledew trudge 600 miles from their native Tennessee to found Stay More, a small town nestled in a narrow valley that winds among the Arkansas Ozarks and into the reader's imagination. The Ingledew saga - which follows six generations of 'Stay Morons' through 140 years of abundant living and prodigal loving - is the heart of Harington's jubilant, picaresque novel. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-073-7 Pages: 400 8½"x5½" US$ 14.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info... |  |
| Butterfly Weed "Inspired, playful storytelling from one of our most consistently original (and impish) novelists who now returns to his Ozark version of Shangri-la - the village of Stay More, a place hard to find but infinitely harder to leave. This latest installment, a history of the complex love life and remarkable medical achievements of Doc Colvin Swain, Stay More's "dreaming Doctor," is no different: Apprenticed as a young boy to a hill doctor, he learns to use both a wide range of herbal remedies and conventional cures..." Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-097-4 Pages: 200 8½"x5½" US$14.95 Publication date: October 2004 More Info... |  |
| The Cherry Pit Clifford Stone—quixotic curator of arcane Americana at a Boston antiques foundation and cataloguer of our “Vanished American Past”—forsakes Boston and his icy wife to return to his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, and a life that is both instantly familiar and disturbingly strange... Paperback: ISBN 10: 1-59264-178-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-59264-178-9 Pages: c.500 8½"x5½" US$14.95 Publication date: April 2007 More Info... |  |
| The Choiring of the Trees Arkansas, 1914: A 13-year-old girl is raped in the backwoods of the Ozarks. On her testimony, Nail Chism, from Stay More, is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair - until his innocence is championed by the staff artist of the state's leading newspaper, a woman whose past amongst the artists in Paris is even stranger and more solitary than Nail's. Will she succeed in saving Nail? Or will the singing - "choiring" - of the trees that Nail hears while strapped into the chair be the last earthly (or unearthly) sound he will ever hear? Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-103-2, Pages: c.400, US$14.95 Publication date: April 2005 More Info... |  |
| The Cockroaches of Stay More With this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world. In depicting the cockroach community, who perambulate on gitalongs, apprehend their environment through sniff whips and commit unwitting malapropisms about the mysterious world of Man (and Woman), Harington unleashes a sprightly, antic imagination. Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-72-9 Pages: c.400 8½"x5½" US$14.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info... |  |
| Ekaterina "Both allusionary and illusionary, Ekaterina centers around a Georgian (as in the former USSR) princess/mycologist/dissident who arrives in the United States with a rudimentary knowledge of English, a passion for pubescent boys, and a deep-seated fear that her Russian psychiatrist tormentor, Bolshakov, is still on her trail. With the help of a ghost and an alcoholic art historian-cum-novelist, she discovers her own talent for fiction and makes enough money to take over a suite of rooms in an old mountain resort hotel (a la Nabokov)..." Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-96-6 Pages: c.300 8½"x5½" US$14.95 Publication date: October 2004 More Info... |  |
| Farther Along He wants to get away from it all. Despite a satisfying career as chief curator of a museum devoted to the vanished American past, he finds he himself wants to vanish. So with the help of a book on the life and culture of a vanished tribe of Indians known as Bluff-dwellers, he takes up residence in the wilderness of the Ozark mountains, with only a dog for company and only an atlatl - a primitive spear thrower - to provide him with his supper. His few amusements are the playing of tunes on a hair-comb-and-tissue and writing what he intends to be an indictment of modern civilization in his journals. He makes the acquaintance of a young moonshiner who keeps him supplied abundantly with corn liquor. But after six years of this life he realizes that what he is trying to get away from is himself... Publication date: May 2008 More Info... |  |
| Let Us Build Us a City by Donald Harington This work brilliantly fuses travel narrative with history and cultural studies—yet reads like a novel. It’s also a love story that is in no way fictional... Paperback: ISBN 978 1 59264 203 8 Pages: c.300 US$14.95 UK£9.99 CAN$19.95 Publication date: October 2007 More Info... |  |
| Lightning Bug Latha Bourne, the attractive postmistress of Stay More — a small town in the Arkansas Ozarks — didn’t expect to see Every Dill again. More than ten years before, he had raped her, robbed the bank, and vanished - leaving her pregnant. Now Every has the nerve to reappear. An erotic yet wonderfully innocent tale of loss and of finding. Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-102-4, Pages: c.450, US$14.95 Publication date: April 2005 More Info... |  |
| The Pitcher Shower Every time Hoppy enters a town in his truck, he is greeted with delight and anticipation, showered with warmth, offered meals, and more often than not, pretty girls trying to catch more than just his eye. It's not that Hoppy is so special; it's the pitcher shows that he brings with him, the shoot-'em-ups and giddyappers that all the Ozark folk adore that have them lining up to welcome him. Hoppy's predictable routine and his struggles with his own self-loathing are challenged when a teenager succeeds in stowing away in his truck and proves to be a lot more than he seems... Hardcover: ISBN: 1592641237 Pages: c.250 8¾"x5¾" US$22.95 UK£14.99 Publication date: September 2005 More Info... |  |
| Some other Place. The Right Place. A love story with reincarnation! A teenage boy, Day Whittacker, begins to speak in the voice of a poet dead since 1953. The poet's granddaughter, Diana Stoving, seeks him out, and they begin a journey together from New England ending in Stick Around, Arkansas. One of Harington's most devious narratives, and a precursor to the Stay More cycle. Paperback: ISBN: 1-592640-71-0 Pages: 500 8½"x5½" US$ 14.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info... |  |
| Thirteen Albatrosses (or, Falling off the Mountain) For decades, Donald Harington has delighted readers with ribald, colorful adventures from Stay More, Arkansas, an imaginary Ozark enclave where shrewd and sexy hill folk mingle with reclusive millionaires rich from Wal-Mart stock, indigenous Indians, and legendary leftovers from the town's occasionally magical and completely mythical past. Now, with Thirteen Albatrosses, Harington returns to Stay More to document the uproarious attempt of native son Vernon Ingledew to earn the governorship of his great, if sometimes much-maligned, state. But, to his own shock, Ingledew-a handsome but less than telegenic ham magnate and self-educated polymath-is hampered by what his opponents refer to as his thirteen albatrosses... Paperback: ISBN: 1592641687 Pages: c.400 US$14.95 UK£9.99 Publication date: September 2006 More Info... |  |
| When Angels Rest During World War II, real news is a rare commodity in the hamlet of Stay More, Arkansas. But twelve-year-old Dawny - inspired by his hero Ernie Pyle - finds enough local color to keep the townsfolk reading his weekly newspaper, The Stay Morning Star. Dawny reports on the war between the Allies and the Axis, two roving bands of boys and girls fighting with sticks and spears, and competing in scrap drives and verbal jousts. But the tenor of these games changes as developments bring the world's war closer to home... Paperback: ISBN: 1-59264-104-0 Pages: c.250 8¾"x5¾" US$14.95 UK£9.99 Publication date: August 2005 More Info... |  |
| With Impossible to categorize, With is a sensual, irresistible tale, full of unexpected twists and turns. What starts out as a suspenseful recounting of child abduction evolves into the story of eight-year-old Robin Kerr growing up in the wilds of the Ozarks, left to fend for herself on a remote, inaccessible mountain-top. Without ‘human’ company for a decade, forced to live off the land, Robin is never alone; her animal companions grow more numerous year by year, and the ‘live ghost’ of a young boy who once lived on the mountain is her constant companion... Hardcover: ISBN: 1-59264-050-8 Pages: 500 8¾"x5¾" US$ 19.95 Publication date: April 2004 More Info... |  |
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