THE MASTER OF STAY MORE RETURNS
WITH THE PITCHER SHOWER

"The quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary US letters."
- The Boston Globe.

Every time Hoppy enters a town in his truck, blowing his bugle, 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. Together they contend with a wily traveling preacher who dogs their heels, trying to steal away their audience with his message of salvation. This peddler of the Gospel is just as bent on making money as the peddler of the motion pitcher, and in his cunning he steals all of Hoppy's cowboy pitchers, leaving the pitcher shower no choice but to buy the only available pitcher available, a strange pitcher called A Midsummer Night's Dream, and hope that it will prove popular with audiences who expect horses and Hopalong Cassidy.

Join Hoppy on his picaresque adventures as he brings the magic of Shakespeare and the magic of the Ozarks together, and struggles with the mystery of love, both the giving and receiving…

Donald Harington has been acclaimed as "an undiscovered continent," and is the brilliant creator of fictional worlds rooted in his native Arkansas. His imagination is no less expansive than Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his language is rich in a uniquely American, southern idiom. Winner of the Robert Penn Warren Award, the Porter Prize and the Heasly Prize, The Pitcher Shower is his thirteenth novel, a new installment in the Stay More Cycle.