Synopses & Reviews
It is June. Diana Stoving's new Porsche has just broken down on the Garden State Parkway, and Diana, twenty-one, freshly graduated from Sarah Lawrence, sits in a dealer's showroom, waiting for repairs. Bored and impatient, Diana leafs through the local newspaper and by pure chance reads the news item that will change the course of her life, that will launch her on a year's journey, a year of the strangest adventures she could ever hope to endure, suffer, and enjoy. For it is this news item that leads her to meet Day Whittacker, a shy, eighteen-year-old Eagle Scout, who his high school English teacher, experimenting with 'age regression,' claims is the reincarnation of a hellraising countryman named Daniel Lyam Montross, a man who had lived a wild, romantic life and died a violent death twenty years earlier.
Together, Day and Diana disappear from New Jersey, setting out to explore the life and investigate the death of the man known as Daniel Lyam Montross. Through ghost towns and abandoned villages they journey, becoming in turn, amateur archaelogists, naturalists, sleuths, historians, and inevitably and ultimately, lovers.
And always the presence of Daniel Lyam Montross is with them. Dead, he is fated to die again. Is one or both of them also fated to die?
One of Harington's most devious narratives, and a precursor to the Stay More cycle.
Review
"A highly original novel, intriguing both sexually and intellectually, and very well written." Publishers Weekly
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"There is much to admire here structure, characterization, tonal and thematic complexity, evidence of hard and fruitful labor all tempered with healthy dollops of self-mockery." The New York Times
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"Sensual, evocative, clever and very original...the senses reel from a mass of powerful description." Irish Times
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"A vast, delicate, bawdy, playful, reckless masterpiece filled with wit, overflowing invention, tremendous courage, technical wizardry, profound feeling, and mysteries opening upon further, richer, more dazzling mysteries." Peter Straub
Synopsis
A college graduate and Eagle Scout take turns as amateur archaeologists, nauralists, sleuths, and inevitably, lovers as they discover the solution of a mystery revealing their own beginnings.
About the Author
Acclaimed by critics as "an undiscovered continent" (Fred Chappell) and "America's greatest unknown novelist" (Entertainment Weekly), Donald Harington is a brilliant creator of fictional worlds, rooted in his native Arkansas. His imagination is no less expansive than Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his language is rich in a uniquely American, southern idiom. Winner of the Robert Penn Warren Award, the Porter Prize, and the Heasley Prize, the Toby Press is delighted to be publishing With, his thirteenth novel, as well as three new editions of other novels in the Stay More cycle.