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| Original Title: | Butterfly Weed: A Novel |
| ISBN: | 0151001642 (ISBN13: 9780151001644) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Stay More #7 |
Donald Harington
Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.91 | 200 Users | 17 Reviews
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| Title | : | Butterfly Weed (Stay More #7) |
| Author | : | Donald Harington |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 1996) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Romance. Literature. American |
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This is the life story of the colorful physician of Harington’s acclaimed Stay More novels, Doc Swain: how he becomes a physician without benefit of medical school education, how he winds up as a high-school teacher of hygiene and enamored of a pretty student, how his love for her ultimately leads him to face some heartbreaking choices. Bawdy, rich in language and detail, and very funny.Rating About Books Butterfly Weed (Stay More #7)
Ratings: 3.91 From 200 Users | 17 ReviewsDiscuss About Books Butterfly Weed (Stay More #7)
That was just lot of fun! A great book indeed!The best one of the series yet. I'm tempted to annotate the book in terms of historical fact. Couple of examples: The frame story is told by Vance Randolph, who really was a folkorist who specialized in Ozarkian folklore.Automobiles really were manufactured in Arkansas in the early 20th century by the Climber Motor Company.Artificial pneumothorax and thoracoplasty(!) really were used as treatments for tuberculosis. There really was a tuberculosis sanitorium near Booneville Arkansas. In one way,
Okay. I didn't finish this. I tried to because the writing is interesting and unique--folklore of the Ozarks. However: I simply couldn't stick with it.
Any book by Harrington is always a good read, but I was just a bit disappointed about one aspect of the book. Most of his books tell agreat story, have interesting characters, and have wonderful twists and turns to the plot line. Sex was just a natural part of the story. With Butterfly Weed I felt that sex drove the plot rather than events or the characters. This has not been the norm for other books by Harrington.
I got caught up in Donald Harington's world of Stay More, Arkansas years ago, with his book Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks. I've read a number of his books since. Butterfly Weed is not my favorite, but it was an enjoyable read nonetheless. Very funny, bawdy, just a little too "self aware" for my taste.
Another beautiful story from Donald Harington. This time he tells the story of Doc Swain, one of my favourite Stay Morons. I was surprised to learn after reading it that the character Vance who narrates the story to Harington in the book (yes, it is meta) was a real-life folklorist.
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