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With, Donald Harington. Hardcover, $19.95 ISBN
1-59264-050-8 Sog Allen is a hard nosed cop
facing a bleak future, when he decides to buck the tide and retire to an
abandoned, nearly unreachable mountain cabin where no one will bother him.
But before he can go, he'll need companionship. So he decides to kidnap Robin
Terr, a young girl he's spied from afar. When Sog brings Robin to his mountain top cabin, her only
friends are Hreapha, the ugliest dog in creation,
and the ghost of a 12 year old boy whose family once inhabited the cabin.
This new life is strange and disturbing for Robin. Everything she has ever
known is gone, and worse than that, Sog has some
unpleasant ideas about how this new life should go. But soon after they get
to the cabin, something happens to Sog. He's
getting sick. He can barely walk and he's drinking more and more, making him
even less dependable. With this mixed blessing, young Robin must learn to
survive, without the help of her captor, who grows weaker each day. And so begins Mr. Harington's
latest tale of Stay More, This is the latest of ten novels chronicling Stay More,
the legendary fictional small town in the Arkansas Ozark Mountains. Many of
these books have recently come back into print through Toby press. http://www.tobypress.com/ Always a treat, Mr. Harington's novels are stylistically inventive, warm and
funny. Capturing the best in "Arkansas Traveler," mountain wit,
with a depth rarely matched in modern fiction, Mr. Harington's
novels are not to be missed. - CL Bledsoe |