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(0)Jim Harrison
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Language
English
Description
Cliff, a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high school-teacher days twenty-some years before, to a "snake...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A collection of three novellas by acclaimed author Jim Harrison. The Ancient Minstrel: An aging writer in Montana indulges his lifelong dream of raising pigs, struggles to write the "big novel" he's rashly promised his editor, and attempts to rekindle the long marriage that has sustained him. Eggs: A Montana woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents, and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child,...
6) True north
Author
Language
English
Description
The scion of a family of timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a malevolent father and an alcoholic mother. As David comes to adulthood, with the help of the courageous women he loves, he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers' destruction of the woods of Michigan's Upper PLeninsula, as well as the working people who made their wealth possible. 30 years into the process, David looks closely at the root of his father's evil --...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Of all [Jim Harrison's] creations, Brown Dog has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance, scrambling to stay out of jail after his salvage-diving operation uncovers the frozen body of an Indian man in the waters of Lake Superior. Now, for the first time, this book gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume"--Jacket.
Brown Dog is a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck...
10) The great leader
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Retired Detective Sunderson must get past his troubles with alcohol if he and an unlikely 16-year-old sidekick are ever going to expose an elusive cult leader called The Great Leader.
14) The road home
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A man who was offered for adoption at birth because he was an illegitimate child searches for his mother in this novel on a Nebraska family. In the process, Nelse Carlson, 30, discovers he is the grandson of a powerful rancher.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Big Seven sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan. Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in than he realizes his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader did. A family of outlaws, armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times-bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet's economy of style and a trencherman's appetites. Best known for fiction and poetry, Harrison was also a prolific nonfiction writer, with columns running in Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and work in Outside, Field & Stream, and others. Written with Harrison's trademark ribald humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, The Search for the Genuine is a collection...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the author's twelfth book of poems, birds and humans converse, biographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter just out of sight. In terrains real and imagined--from remote canyons and anonymous thickets in the American West to secret basements in World War II Europe--Harrison calls his readers to fully inhabit the world where "Death steals everything except our stories"--Cover
