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Book SynopsisDouble Toil and Trouble is the first new volume of fiction in more than a decade by beloved 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 Featuring the long-lost suspense novel of the title and four previously unpublished or uncollected stories, this volume adds several new chapters to the saga of Stay More, the fictional Ozarks village that serves as the setting for more than a dozen other Harington novels.
Edited by longtime Harington scholar Brian Walter,
Double Toil and Trouble also includes an appendix featuring the author's spirited correspondence with the editor who originally inspired the title novel, providing an insider's look at the American literary scene and Harington's own early assessment of his work. Spanning several decades of the author's career, this volume gives readers a Harington who is at once familiar and fresh as he experiments with new formal possibilities, only to once again endear the vagaries of love, life, and folk language to us.
Trade ReviewFor those of us who continue to treasure Donald Harington and his work, there’s something tremendously moving about receiving this late addition to the Stay More chronicles—a message in a bottle from 1973. In the novel (and four stories) you'll find here, he displays all the warmth, wit, goodness, and love of humanity that make his books so essential, as if he were reaching out from decades ago to remind us that the world is beautiful and we are of value to each other." —Kevin Brockmeier, author of
The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories
