{"product_id":"the-guestroom-novelist-donald-harington-9781682260913","title":"The Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonald Harington, best known for his fifteen novels, was also a prolific writer of essays, articles, and book reviews.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guestroom Novelist: A Donald Harington Miscellany\u003c\/i\u003e gathers a career-spanning and eclectic selection of nonfiction by the Arkansawyer novelist Donald Harington that reveals how a life of devastating losses and disappointments inspired what the Boston Globe called the \"quirkiest, most original body of work in contemporary US letters.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis extensive collection of interviews and other works of prose--many of which are previously unpublished--offers glimpses into Harington's life, loves, and favorite obsessions, replays his minor (and not so minor) dramas with literary critics, and reveals the complicated and sometimes contentious relationship between his work of the writers he most admired. The Guestroom Novelist, which takes its title from an essay that serves as a love letter to his fellow underappreciated writers, paints a rich portrait of the artist as a young, middle-aged, and fiercely funny old man, as well as comic, sentimentalist, philosopher, and critic, paying testimony to the writer's magnificent ability to transform the seemingly crude stuff of our material existence into enduring art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Harington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682260917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682260913\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arkansas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Donald Harington","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44078596358399,"sku":"9781682260913","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e163f00-7e41-4759-9b57-bb2632510114.jpg?v=1685476410","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-guestroom-novelist-donald-harington-9781682260913","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}