http://blog.booklistonline.com/2009/11/12/donald-harington-rip/ Behind the Book Reviews--The Official Blog of Booklist Online Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:38:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2009/11/12/donald-harington-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-399982 Keir Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:33:58 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=3601#comment-399982 Thanks for the recommendations, Deborah! I’m sure that many readers will be taking a fresh interest in Harington’s works. But it’s unfortunate that so many artists are “discovered” after their deaths, isn’t it?

]]> http://blog.booklistonline.com/2009/11/12/donald-harington-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-399670 Deborah Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:09:52 +0000 http://blog.booklistonline.com/?p=3601#comment-399670 I’m not sure if I’ve ever read any other author who filled his books with such a sense of joie de vivre, in the most genuine way. His characters stay with you, his world becomes your world. Despite the fact that almost all his books take place in or around his made-up village of Stay More, you never quite know what he’s going to do next. He was a true original. He deserved to be far, far better known and I grieve that it never happened during his life time. Anyone who is curious to read his books (and they should be!) would be advised to begin with ‘The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks’ or ‘The Choiring of the Trees’ which I think are two of his masterpieces (although ‘With’ is right up there with them). All his books are wonderful, truly, but those would be the ones I’d recommend to begin with.

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