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.
About the Author
 Although he was born and raised in Little Rock, Donald Harington spent nearly all of his early summers in the Ozark mountain hamlet of Drakes Creek, his mother's hometown, where his grandparents operated the general store and post office. There, before he lost his hearing to meningitis at the age of twelve, he listened carefully to the vanishing Ozark folk language and the old tales told by story-tellers. His academic career is in art and art history and he has taught art history at a variety of colleges, including his alma mater, the University of Arkansas.
His first novel was published by Random House in 1965, and since then he has published twelve other novels, most of them set in the Ozark hamlet of his own creation, Stay More, based loosely upon Drakes Creek. He has also written books about artists.
He won the Robert Penn Warren Award in 2003, 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 the Arkansas Library Association. He has been called "an undiscovered continent" (Fred Chappell) and "America's Greatest Unknown Novelist" (Entertainment Weekly).
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The Critics Praise:
"Totally satisfying...Like the late James Agee, Harington reveres the most ordinary aspects of
the lives of unexceptional people...he makes his joy infectious."
Time Magazine
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