Böcker av Donald Harington

With this wonderfully irreverent comic novel, Harington leaves off chronicling the human inhabitants of the Arkansas Ozark town of Stay More and turns his attention to its insect world. In depicting the cockroach community, who perambulate on gitalongs, apprehend their environment through sniff whips and commit unwitting malapropisms about the mysterious world of Man (and Woman), Harington unleashes a sprightly, antic imagination.

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.

Ekaterina has just arrived in an unnamed city at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela with a pasteboard suitcase, a kerchief that covers her lack of hair, and little more than a rudimentary knowledge of English, the language in which she will eventually write her other phenomenal bestsellers. At every turn, Ekaterina's rise to fortune is rattled by her consuming appetite for pubescent boys. Her novels earn her wealth enough to take over the top floor of an aging resort hotel in the Bodarks, as her idol, Nabokov, had taken over a suite in a Swiss resort hotel after the success of Lolita. Ekaterina is a masterwork of illusion and allusion, and like all of Donald Harington's novels it affords delight from beginning to end.

The first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by Arkansas writer Donald Harington (1935-2009). Featuring the long-lost suspense novel of the title and four previously unpublished or uncollected stories, this volume adds new chapters to the fictional Ozarks village that serves as the setting for more than a dozen Harington novels.