With (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald Harington
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2003
- Setting: The towns of Harrison and Stay More and Madewell Mountain, in Arkansas
- Principal Characters: Robin Kerr, Sugrue (Sog) Alan, Adam Madewell, Hreapha
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Girls, United States or Americans, Dogs, Nature, Twenty-first century, Child abuse, Mountain life, Kidnapping, Animals, Arkansas
- Locales: Arkansas
The latest of Donald Harington's Stay More novels, With, attempts to create a mythical world in which a young girl of eight can grow up safely without any other people in the innocence of the natural world that surrounds her. The eighteen-year-old nature goddess who emerges from these years is then ripe and ready for the middle-aged man who returns to his family's abandoned homestead to find in her true love.
No matter how clever this novel becomes (and it is shameless in the chances it takes), it is telling the same old sad story that Hollywood has been filming for...
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