The Choiring of the Trees by Donald Harington

The Choiring of the Trees by Donald Harington

A rape and a wrongful condemnation--a novel based on a true story. In Arkansas, 1914, a 13-year-old girl is raped in the backwoods of the Ozarks. On her testimony, a young mountaineer is convicted and sentenced to the electric chair. With his celebrated storyteller's art, Donald Harington has created a work rich in drama, passion, and texture, unforgettably bringing to life his characters, place, and era.

“I’ve since read every book Harington has published, and believe him to be one of America’s great contemporary authors” —The Boston Globe “A superbly rewarding novel.” —The Christian Science Monitor “Filled with suspense and a fine sense of time and place.” —Los Angeles Times “An intense, lyrical, moving story…A significant novel that should please a wide audience.” —Publishers Weekly “Hauntingly beautiful, The Choiring of the Trees is a tale so richly told, its character so seductive, that it resonates with brilliance.” —Jill McCorkle

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” (Entertainment Weekly).

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ISBN 13	9781612181233
ISBN 10	1612181236
Title	The Choiring of the Trees
Author	Donald Harington
Series	Stay More
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Amazon Publishing
Year published	2011-07-05
Number of pages	460
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.