The Morphine Melody
What happens when a sprightly divorcée school teacher writes a fan letter to a lonely, depressed novelist who hasn't been published in years? Will the writer's improbable new muse somehow save his li…
The Morphine Melody
What happens when a sprightly divorcée school teacher writes a fan letter to a lonely, depressed novelist who hasn't been published in years? Will the writer's improbable new muse somehow save his life and help him revive his career? In this sequel to "Stay More: The World of Donald Harington" (2013), Arkansawyer Donald Harington tells how the fateful fan letter from his future wife, Kim, finally helped inspire the "quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary U. S. letters" (Boston Globe). Together, the deaf writer and his mischievous paramour tell the story of their unlikely romance (conducted "courtesy of the United States Postal Service"). The course of true love never did run less smooth - or more funny - through creative (and rejected) marriage proposals, anniversary tricks, book collaborations, life-threatening illnesses, and a series of boldly and playfully experimental novels that pushed the boundaries of American literature. Tampering eagerly with history (just never with fiction!), the Nabokov of the Ozarks spins a yarn worthy of his own novels, his beloved Fate Thing peopling his own life-story with lovers and liars, despairs and delights that even he could hardly have dreamed up. —Brian Walter
The Morphine Melody
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What happens when a sprightly divorcée school teacher writes a fan letter to a lonely, depressed novelist who hasn't been published in years? Will the writer's improbable new muse somehow save his life and help him revive his career? In this sequel to "Stay More: The World of Donald Harington" (2013), Arkansawyer Donald Harington tells how the fateful fan letter from his future wife, Kim, finally helped inspire the "quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary U. S. letters" (Boston Globe).
Together, the deaf writer and his mischievous paramour tell the story of their unlikely romance (conducted "courtesy of the United States Postal Service"). The course of true love never did run less smooth - or more funny - through creative (and rejected) marriage proposals, anniversary tricks, book collaborations, life-threatening illnesses, and a series of boldly and playfully experimental novels that pushed the boundaries of American literature. Tampering eagerly with history (just never with fiction!), the Nabokov of the Ozarks spins a yarn worthy of his own novels, his beloved Fate Thing peopling his own life-story with lovers and liars, despairs and delights that even he could hardly have dreamed up.
—Brian Walter.