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When Hoppy rolls into town in his horse-drawn truck, he is often met with anticipation and attention because he brings shoot-em-up pictures, but his predictable routine is disturbed when a teenager stows away in his truck, and together they set off on a series of adventures throughout the Ozarks.Tags
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Hoppy drives his truck (Topper) around the Ozark mountain's tiny towns showing Hopalong Cassidy movies. He is a quiet, and somewhat unhappy man, but things begin to change when a teenage boy stows away in his truck and offers to be his assistant on the road. Things change a lot more when the teenage boy turns out to be a teenage girl in disguise. To say much more about the plot would give away too much, but a villainous preacher, Shakespeare, and a love quadrangle are all involved.
Absolutely charming story of a guy who travels about the Ozarks during the Depression showing movies, and his romantic adventures which owe something to "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
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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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