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Enduring / Donald Harington.
- Title
- Enduring / Donald Harington.
- Author
- Harington, Donald.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3558.A6242 E53 2009g | Off-site |
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- Description
- 498 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Forty years ago, Donald Harington created the little town of Stay More, hidden away in the hills of the Ozarks. He populated it with generations of families who had escaped the Appalachians in search of something - more room, greener pastures, freedom from convention, sweeter air and water, or simply a world where time and history don't matter. The first person the author created to inhabit his town was a woman, Latha Bourne, who would be the heroine and demigoddess of Lightning Bug and would reappear in numerous novels, herself serving as narrator of the classic The Chairing of the Trees." "From the beginning, she was set apart from the others by her beauty, her wit, her mystery, and her intense if unfulfilled sexuality. She was an enigma to her fellow Stay Morons, as Harington chose to call his citizenry, not insultingly but affectionately, in a play upon the town's invitational name and in recognition of the dictionary's definition of a "moron" as someone forever locked into the ages from 7 to 12, the years of most surprise and wonder and delight." "But until this novel, Enduring, we never learned what happened to Latha herself between those ages, or, for that matter, at many other stages of her mysterious life. Now, in his largest novel yet, Harington reveals her entire story from beginning to ... end?"--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 159264256X
- 9781592642564
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries