Book Review: Lightning Bug, by Donald Harington
An earthy Ozark gem about Stay More, Arkansas.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970, 243 pages
( The love interest is a rapist, and there is ewe-humping. Somehow, this was a good book. )
Verdict: A bawdy, humorous work of Southern fiction, set in a fictional Ozark town full of messed-up pig-headed people with class differences you could separate with a thread. Donald Harington is not nearly as well-known as Faulkner or Daniel Woodrell, but I'd say he's in the same league with them. If you're in the mood for Ozarker fiction with a light literary touch and a quite a bit of sex, worth checking out.
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970, 243 pages
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.
( The love interest is a rapist, and there is ewe-humping. Somehow, this was a good book. )
Verdict: A bawdy, humorous work of Southern fiction, set in a fictional Ozark town full of messed-up pig-headed people with class differences you could separate with a thread. Donald Harington is not nearly as well-known as Faulkner or Daniel Woodrell, but I'd say he's in the same league with them. If you're in the mood for Ozarker fiction with a light literary touch and a quite a bit of sex, worth checking out.
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