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Readers of Harington's previous installments of the Stay More saga will recognize the old familiar stomping ground. But the stompers this time are insectile.Tags
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The cockroaches of Stay More are the main characters, taking on the names of the humans. Set later on in the timeline of Stay More, Latha's granddaughter, Sharon, is present.
Religion, social and economic status, family, and my favorite line involved a jab at racism ('she'll see him because he's white!'). All performed by cockroaches! There's play with language and tenses.
Lord, again with the incest.
The very last word...it spun me about from smilingly coasting to the completion of a story into sadness.
Oh man, as I was reading this, I was struck by the fact that Harington was writing about himself, in this and all his other books. His author blurb notes that he became deaf at 12 due to a bout of something-coccus meningitis. The hero show more in this book is a deaf cockroach...and I wonder how else they are similar to each other. Looking back, the lost little boy in love with the postmistress, who became an academic whose soul was slowly being crushed, and my god! maybe even the Boston curator who returned to the Ozarks? I wonder to what extext these books about Stay More are autobiographical. show less
The cockroaches of Stay More are the main characters, taking on the names of the humans. Set later on in the timeline of Stay More, Latha's granddaughter, Sharon, is present.
Religion, social and economic status, family, and my favorite line involved a jab at racism ('she'll see him because he's white!'). All performed by cockroaches! There's play with language and tenses.
Lord, again with the incest.
The very last word...it spun me about from smilingly coasting to the completion of a story into sadness.
Oh man, as I was reading this, I was struck by the fact that Harington was writing about himself, in this and all his other books. His author blurb notes that he became deaf at 12 due to a bout of something-coccus meningitis. The hero show more in this book is a deaf cockroach...and I wonder how else they are similar to each other. Looking back, the lost little boy in love with the postmistress, who became an academic whose soul was slowly being crushed, and my god! maybe even the Boston curator who returned to the Ozarks? I wonder to what extext these books about Stay More are autobiographical. show less
Breathtakingly irreverent and laugh out loud funny in that wonderful tall tale sort of way. Particularly of interest to people with a bone to pick with Christianity, but not mean spirited. The cockroach characters mirror their human Stay More neighbors... so it stands alone but does improve with more context from the other books. Definitely recommended.
Told from the point of view of the cockroaches! Cockroach culture as imagined by Harington is fantastic and hilarious. Excellent read.
Roach sex anyone?
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Donald Harington was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He spent nearly all of his early summers in the Ozark mountain hamlet of Drakes Creek. He knew at an early age that he wanted to be a writer, but also wanted to be a teacher. He has taught art history at a variety of colleges in New York, New England, South Dakota and finally at his show more alma mater, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he lectured for approximately 22 years, until his retirement in 2008. Harington 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. Many of this novels take place in the fictional town of Stay More, which is loosely based on Drakes Creek. Harington died in 2009. (Publisher Fact Sheets) show less
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- Original title
- The Cockroaches of Stay More
- Original publication date
- 1989
- Important places
- USA; Arkansas, USA
- Dedication
- For my daughters: Jennifer, Calico, and Katy, and my stepson Mickel, who never heard a bedtime story like this one.
- First words
- One time not too long ago on a beginning of night in the latter part of May, a middle-aged gent was walking homeward along the forest path from Roamin Road to the village of carlott, behind Holy House in the valley of Stainmo... (show all)or or Stay More.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Ding-dong the dang dumb don'ts tp soundless hell.
In purple sympathy we twain shall dwell. - Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.54
- Canonical LCC
- S3558.A6242
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- English, German
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