The Cherry Pit Donald Harington by Donald Harington 9781612181080, 1612181082 instant download after payment.

Clifford Stone—quixotic curator of arcane Americana at a Boston antiques
foundation and cataloguer of our “Vanished American Past”—forsakes
Boston and his icy wife to return to his hometown of Little Rock,
Arkansas, and a life that is both instantly familiar and disturbingly
strange. Cliff’s journey home begins as a recovery mission, but it
becomes a desperate search for, confrontation with, immersion in, and
emergence from his lost past. In a series of libidinous, murderous,
hilarious and anxious adventures, Cliff renews old friendships—including
one with a girl he thought he’d forgotten—and makes some new enemies.
The Cherry Pit is a flamboyant, lascivious, comic novel about
restoration and renewal—and, like all proper comic novels, a serious
book.
About the Author
Although he was born and raised in Little
Rock, Donald Harington spent nearly all of his early summers in the
Ozark mountain hamlet of Drakes Creek, his mother's hometown, where his
grandparents operated the general store and post office. There, before
he lost his hearing to meningitis at the age of twelve, he listened
carefully to the vanishing Ozark folk language and the old tales told by
story-tellers. His academic career is in art and art history and he has
taught art history at a variety of colleges, including his alma mater,
the University of Arkansas. His first novel was published by Random
House in 1965, and since then he has published twelve other novels, most
of them set in the Ozark hamlet of his own creation, Stay More, based
loosely upon Drakes Creek. He has also written books about artists. He
won the Robert Penn Warren Award in 2003, 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 the Arkansas Library Association. He has been called
"an undiscovered continent" (Fred Chappell) and "America's Greatest
Unknown Novelist"…