About this title: This installment of Donald Harington's Stay More saga features young Robin Kerr, who is abducted when she is 7 years old and left alone in a lonely house on top of a mountain with no one but a dog (who assists in narrating events). Soon she is joined by a few more animals, including a snake, and a former inhabitant of the place--now a ghost named Adam, age 12. As Robin grows up in this strange environment, she acquires wisdom of a kind that is unavailable to most people.
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Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Toby Press LLC, Milford, Connecticut
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781592640508ISBN:1592640508
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BW4-DJ is mylar protected. DJ has less than half inch tears on the top corners opposite the spine, wrinkling and crease on some edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise good. Book has light stains on the page edges and very light shelf wear otherwise very good. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Toby Press
Date Published: 2004-03
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Toby Pr
Date Published: 2004-03-01
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Toby Press
Date Published: 2004
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Toby Press
Date Published: 2004
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Toby Press
Date Published: 3/1/2004
ISBN-13:9781592640508ISBN:1592640508
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"A compelling story, but a pronounced element of sexism is disturbing, as is the blend of magical realism and fairy tale with plot elements involving child sexual assault and an idealization of victimhood."
"This is a flamboyantly ridiculous novel: a graceless, crudely-written pile of hillbilly nonsense that fascinated and repelled me at the same time.
The story follows a young girl who is abducted by a child molester and taken to live in his broken-down mountain retreat. It is told from the point of view of the girl, a dog, and the spirit (as opposed to ghost) of a former resident. The girl is a lithe young beauty, and as we watch her grow from a spunky young nymph to a glorious pin-up, the book becomes a kind of cornpone wet dream taken to a mythic dimension.
Robin Kerr, the plucky heroine of the story, is the seven-year-old daughter of a poor single mom trying to make ends meet. She is, also, an object of lust for a sleazy cop, Sugrue "Sog" Alan, who takes her to live with him in a barely-refurbished secluded home stocked with provisions he has purchased with stolen drug money.
Sog dreams of an idyllic mountain existence with his unwilling child bride, but it doesn't quite work out. Robin does not, as he hoped, fall in love with him, and his own ill-planning, alcoholism, impotence and advancing poor health keep him in constant misery.
Robin, on the other hand, thrives over the course of years. She learns to read and farm, and uses her free time to make a full-range community of paper dolls. She is able to communicate in some limited fashion with Sog's neglected dog, Hreapha and both of them are tuned in to the with a spirit of a 12-year-old boy named Adam, spirit or "in-habit" of a former (but still living) resident of the home. The three of them are the nucleus of what becomes a family that includes Hreapha's pups, a cat named Robert, a snake named Sheba, a fawn named Dewey and an ill-tempered black bear named Paddington. She and her menagerie survive the elements, and together they conspire to bring about her reconnection with human society.
Inspired this all may seem, but Harington's imagination is actually rather thin gruel. He has no gift for language, his jokes -- which clot every page -- are groaningly unfunny, his animals are cuddly and Disneyfied, and you can almost hear him huffing and puffing every time he turns his attention to his female lead. Nonetheless, it has the hypnotic charm of a campfire tale told by a free-basing farmhand. Even as it had me groaning, rolling my eyes, and scratching sputtering snorts of disgust in the margins, it also kept me turning the pages.
I couldn't put it down, and I've never been happier to see a book end.**"
"Not what I was expecting. What was I expecting? Not sure. Plot wise, this old guy kidnaps a young girl and takes her off to live in an isolated mountain wilderness. And to the reviwers who've dismissed this book as being just about a creepy dude kidnapping a young girl and wanting to have his way with her...well, you clearly didn't read the whole book b/c the dude dies like halfway through the book (which I kinda guessed by reading the inside flap anyway) and before he dies we learn he's impotent and it's totally like not even about whatever sexual fetish you think it's about. Anyway. Harington, who apparently lost his hearing to meningitis at age 12, does some interesting things narratively (a bit of strange meta-fiction towards the end too that was interesting) that I found to be very entertaining. Nothing too terribly new, just different perspective type stuff, but he so effortlessly transitions between voices and writes each one with such sincerity that you can't help but be wrapped up in the thoughts and emotions of the dog/girl/bobcat/old guy/"ghost"/mother, etc. And though I throughly enjoyed the book, I probably won't be reading another one by him. It's hard to explain why, but ya know when you visit a restaurant or something and you have a good time and everything and the food was good and generally had what you would call a 'good experience' but really, in your heart of hearts, you can say you probably, for no clear reason, would not go back? That's how I kinda feel about Harington and the world of Stay More (the fictious world most of books are based in). I came, took a look around, approved, but I don't think I'll be going back...though I'd recommend it to my friends. Unlike anything I've ever read, in a lot of ways. If I could use the term 'magical' without rolling my eyes, then I would use it. Magical in the way that great fiction can be magical."
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