Thirteen Albatrosses: (or, Falling Off the Mountain)

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Macmillan, 2003 - Fiction - 416 pages
Welcome to the strange, quixotic quest of Vernon Ingledew: to win the governorship of Arkansas. Ingledew, a self-taught genius, is soon hampered by what his opponents refer
to as his “Thirteen Albatrosses.” Among them: he is an atheist; lives in sin with his first cousin; and believes in “extirpating”—that is, getting rid of—hospitals, prisons, tobacco, and handguns. Nevertheless, Ingledew attracts to his campaign some of America’s heaviest political hitters. Together they form Ingledew’s Seven Samurai, aides whose devotion will be tested by kidnappings, adulterous love affairs, and defection to the rival campaign of the vulgar, hated Arkansas Governor Shoat Bradfield.
 

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Section 1
3
Section 2
17
Section 3
35
Section 4
57
Section 5
76
Section 6
93
Section 7
113
Section 8
132
Section 13
231
Section 14
251
Section 15
270
Section 16
290
Section 17
311
Section 18
333
Section 19
355
Section 20
374

Section 9
151
Section 10
169
Section 11
189
Section 12
210
Section 21
401
Section 22
Copyright

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About the author (2003)

Donald Harington was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He spent nearly all of his early summers in the Ozark mountain hamlet of Drakes Creek. He knew at an early age that he wanted to be a writer, but also wanted to be a teacher. He has taught art history at a variety of colleges in New York, New England, South Dakota and finally at his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where he lectured for approximately 22 years, until his retirement in 2008. Harington won the Porter Prize in 1987, the Heasley Prize at Lyon College in 1998, was inducted into the Arkansas Writers' Hall of Fame in 1999 and that same year won the Arkansas Fiction Award of Arkansas Library Association. Many of this novels take place in the fictional town of Stay More, which is loosely based on Drakes Creek. Harington died in 2009.

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