DONALD HARINGTON—Pitcher Shower—1st Ed HC—"Powerful,

• For Your Consideration: •  A SIGNED First Edition in HARDCOVER ( RARE ) of: • “ THE PITCHER SHOWER ” (The Toby Press, 2005) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY DONALD HARINGTON • SIGNING NOTE : The author DONALD HARINGTON ’s signature appears, in black ink, on the Title Page. • RARITY NOTE: At the time of this listing (6 Nov. 2023), there were no signed copies of this book (with a Dust Jacket) for sale online. (Source: Book Finder website.) • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “In this, his thirteenth novel, DONALD HARINGTON takes us one more beyond history and time to the mythic world of Stay More. As ever, just like its inhabitants, we too will want to stay more….” —THE PUBLISHER • “The Depression years are made a mite less depressing by the likable protagonist of this latest of HARINGTON ’s ongoing Arkansas Ozark chronicles.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “ HARINGTON has tackled heavier themes in previous volumes, but sly narrative commentary and winning humor make this a welcome addition to the series. ” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “A sweet, lyrical tale.” —BOOKLIST • “ DONALD HARINGTON once again leads us on an enchanting journey into the magical mists and haunting hollers of the Arkansas Ozarks. He captures the eccentricities and innocence of these mountain residents much as he did in such treasures as LIGHTNING BUGS (1970), THE COCKROACHES OF STAY MORE (1989) and BUTTERFLY WEED (1996). Many of the residents of HARINGTON ’s fictional postage stamp of Stay More, Ark., make their way into THE PITCHER SHOWER —old friends back to share another tale on the front porch …. HARINGTON ’s brilliant and hilarious new novel will cast its magic spell over readers.” —ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION • 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.” —THE PUBLISHER • “ HARINGTON is one of the most powerful, subtle and inventive novelists in America. Everywhere, his work is full of mystery and heartbreak kept afloat by high spirits, sensual pleasure, and intellectual joy.” —PETER STRAUB, WASHINGTON POST • “America’s Greatest Unknown Novelist.” —ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • “ DONALD HARINGTON is not an underappreciated novelist; he is an undiscovered continent.” —FRED CHAPPELL • “ DONALD HARINGTON one of the finest writers of our day.” —KEVIN BROCKMEIER • “Like the late JAMES AGEE, HARINGTON  reveres the ordinary aspects of the lives of unexceptional people, and with lyrical comedy and irony, he makes his joy infectious.” —TIME MAGAZINE • “I’ve read every book HARINGTON has published, and believe him to be one of America’s great contemporary authors.” —JAMES SALLIS, BOSTON GLOBE • “Arkansas novelist DONALD HARINGTON has tilled his corner of the Ozarks for nearly 40 years, and the soil shows no signs of exhaustion. His yarns defy classification—one reason you haven’t seen them on a rack at your neighborhood supermarket. They combine old-fashioned, down home storytelling with postmodern, NABOKOVIAN trickery… . O ne of America’s rarer literary sensibilities.” —MICHAEL HARRIS, LOS ANGELES TIMES • “For nearly 30 years, DONALD HARINGTON has been writing ingenious novels set in Arkansas's Ozark Mountains, mostly in a small town called Stay More. Despite rave reviews, his novels have never risen above cult status, and he has won the dubious honor of being called ‘America's Greatest Unknown Novelist. ’” —STEPHEN MOORE, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD • “ HARINGTON is a versatile parodist with a zany sense of humor.” —THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY • “ MR. HARINGTON is a master of the supremely difficult art of realistic erotic lyricism and he sees the wider implications, with a note of comedy always recurring to save the moment and the whole form portentousness.” —TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT • “ HARINGTON has created a world of sly humor, warm eroticism, and deep personal passions.” —ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZZETTE • “ HARINGTON ’s series of novels…has been been distinguished by an idiosyncratic blend of lovingly rendered detail…and wild fantasy…. Such material would evaporate in the hands of a lesser novelist.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS • “With DONALD HARINGTON ’s passing, we lost our great American novelist, a great teacher and great friend. He was outrageously funny, profoundly knowing, immensely courageous. A vast soul has gone elsewhere. I hope he’s having a long talk with CERVANTES.” —MICHAEL HEFFERNAN, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS • “His Stay More books anthologize his own creation, simultaneously inventing and recording history of a fictional town. Stay More is an arcadian memory-world, inaccessible but eternal; hard to find, but harder to leave.” —IZZY GRINSPAN, THE BELIEVER • “Regionalism is a term of opprobrium, condescension or contempt. The term ‘regionalist’ doesn’t really say anything about a writer except that the writer prefers writing about a specific place.” —DONALD HARINGTON • “My longstanding antipathy toward the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW , an organ which I, like many another writers, have considered unfair and abusive of its power, prompted me to employ their unfavorable reviewers' names as the names for villains, dread diseases, and pernicious plants in several of my books.” —DONALD HARINGTON • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE:  “THE PITCHER SHOWER” AUTHOR: DONALD HARINGTON TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: The Toby Press (New Milford, CT), 2005 EDITION: First Edition, First Printing* *RE: On the Copyright Page, “First Edition 2005”—with no later printings listed. NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 202 ISBN: 1-59264-123-7 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($17.95) is unclipped. Corners are minutely chipped; spine tips are rubbed. Light wear along edges. Spine is sunned. Light smudging & scratching on sides. (Now protected in a Demco cover.) CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Though lightly scratched (from normal handling), boards are bright & clean. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased with sharp tips. Text-block edges are fine. Pages are clean & bright—with no writing (save for the author’s signature), no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. • THE AUTHOR DONALD HARINGOTN’S SIGNATURE: Appears, in black ink, on the Title Page. •• SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned & sturdy box. 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