The architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks pdf review
Donald Harrington
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
His first novel, THE CHERRY PIT, about Little Rock, was
published by Random House in 1965, and since then he has
published twelve other novels, most all of them set in the
Ozark hamlet of his creation, Stay More, based loosely upon
Drakes Creek. These include LIGHTNING BUG, SOME OTHER
PLACE. THE RIGHT PLACE., THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE
ARKANSAS OZARKS, THE CHOIRING OF THE TREES, and, most
recently, THIRTEEN ALBATROSSES. He has also written books
about artists.
He won the Porter Prize in 1987, the Heasley Prize at Lyon College in 1998, was inducted
into the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame in 1999 and that same year won the Arkansas
Fiction Award of Arkansas Library Association. John Guilds in his anthology, ARKANSAS,
ARKANSAS, wrote, "if Miller Williams ranks as the greatest poet born, bred, nurtured, and
still living in Arkansas, Donald Harington is by the same standards Arkansas's greatest
novelist."The Winter 2002 SOUTHERN QUARTERLY is a "Donald Harington Special Issue"
with tributes from fellow novelists, scholarly essays, interviews, and a selection of his
forty-year correspondence with William Styron.
SUMMARY REVIEW
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. Praised as one of the year's ten best novels by the
American Library Association when first published, this tale continues to captivate readers
with its winning fusion of lyricism and comedy.
Harington combined the folk life and folklore of the Ozarks region with modernist and
postmodernist techniques to create works that mix sex, comedy, violence, regional
architecture and more into a marvelously readable tapestry.The author's genuine love and
compassion for the simplest of his characters is heartwarming.
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