Synopses & Reviews
It's quite a story, by turns raucous and poignant: how Doc Swain becomes a physician without benefit of medical school education, achieving celebrity for his ability to heal patients through the "dream cure," how he winds up a high school teacher of hygiene, how he grows enamored of a pretty student named Tenny at the same time that he is being pursued by the insatiable music teacher Venda Breedlove (who slips him a love potion and makes him her sex slave for a day), and how his love for Tenny ultimately leads him to face some heartbreaking choices.
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"Harington's rich and original language gives his characters depth and charm as well as puts a new spin on commonplace notions....Naughty, tender and unpredictable, Butterfly Weed is a lively trip along a river of language." Publishers Weekly
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"A humdinger, bodacious, bawdy, brush-arbor-whiskey of a tale it is." St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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"A lovely tale, told by a master, sad and hopeful, funny and moving the way the great stories are." Arkansas Times
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"One dose of Stay More may not be enough for a full prescription, readers should check the catalog for other novels by Harington." Booklist
Synopsis
The raucous and poignant story of Doc Swain describes how he becomes a physician without attending medical school, his ability to heal patients with the "dream cure," his pursuit by a student and a music teacher from the high school at which he teaches, and the heartbreaking choices he must make.
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.