BOOKS by Jim Harrison

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1	The English Major more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist "It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn't." With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that sends a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America. Cliff is armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all ... see all copies from $7.49! new only from $8.01! \| first editions \| SVS
2	In Search of Small Gods more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist From the author of "Legends of the Fall" comes a book of poems in which birdsand humans converse, biographies are fluid, and unknown gods flutter just outof sight. see all copies from $12.69! new only from $14.77! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Woman Lit by Fireflies more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist The title novella (of three) is about a woman who, on an impulse, leaves her husband at a turnpike rest stop. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Beast God Forgot to Invent more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist In these three novellas--Jim Harrison's fourth collection of this short form--an elderly man takes care of a younger one who is brain-dead (the title novella), a Native American in Michigan works as the chauffeur for a drunken screenwriter ("Westward Ho"), and a biographer has dinner with a woman he was once married to for nine days ("I Forgot to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Road Home more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist This multi-narrated sequel to DALVA covers the story of three generations of a Nebraska family. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	True North more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist David Burkett has grown up ashamed of the environmental depredations made by his wealthy logging and mining family. A dedicated environmentalist, he becomes obsessed with writing the family's definitive history, revealing their crimes and giving himself a platform for his views. He never manages to complete the endeavor, but in the course of it, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Dalva more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist The saga of a pioneer family is chronicled by Dalva, a woman searching for the lost son she had by Duane, a half-Sioux, and whose Indian heritage becomes an important part of Dalva's narrative. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Legends of the Fall more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist A collection of three separate novellas. "Legends of the Fall" is a family saga relating the fortunes of three brothers growing up in Montana together shortly after the turn of the century. "Revenge" is the account of a Vietnam veteran's attempt to avenge himself on his lover's husband, who nearly killed them when he learned of their affair. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry more books like this by Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser add to wishlist "Braided Creek "contains more than 300 poems exchanged in this longstanding correspondence. Wise, wry, and penetrating, the poems touch upon numerous subjects, from the natural world to the nature of time. Harrison and Kooser decided to remain silent over who wrote which poem, allowing their voices, ideas, and images to swirl and merge into this ... see all copies from $2.41! new only from $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Off to the Side: A Memoir more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Jim Harrison writes an intimate memoir about his life, which has included many famous friends, alcoholism and heavy drug use, the deaths of his father and sister in a car accident, and his own loss of an eye in childhood, as well as his opinions, among them a lively appreciation of whorehouses. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Returning to Earth more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Hailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as "a master ... who makes the ordinary extraordinary, the unnamable unforgettable," beloved author Jim Harrison returns with a masterpiece--a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and finding redemption in unlikely places. Slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's Disease, Donald, a middle-aged ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Julip more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Three comic novellas from the celebrated novelist and satirist. The title story is an account of the efforts of Julip, a young girl with three elderly lovers, to save her older brother Bobby from committal to a lunatic asylum. "The Seven Ounce Man" describes the quest of Brown Dog to save from development a Native American burial ground in which ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Summer He Didn't Die more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Jim Harrison has combined two novellas with a quasi-memoir in this collection. In the latter, "Tracking," he writes about his growth as a writer and reflects on the differences between Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where he's from, and the more rarefied literary milieu in the East and in Europe. In the novella "Republican Wives," three repressed and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Wolf: A False Memoir more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist The central character of this book abandons Manhatten after too many nameless women and drunken nights, to roam the wilderness of northern Michigan, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the rare wolves that prowl that territory. By the author of "A Good Day to Die". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Off to the Side more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Jim Harrison writes an intimate memoir about his life, which has included many famous friends, alcoholism and heavy drug use, the deaths of his father and sister in a car accident, and his own loss of an eye in childhood, as well as his opinions, among them a lively appreciation of whorehouses. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Farmer more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Joseph is 43, a farmer-teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers - one a tantalizing young student, the other his childhood friend, he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or seek employment in the outside world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology more books like this by Robert Bringhurst, Jim Harrison (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Poems, where I come from," writes Robert Bringhurst, "are spoken to be written and written to be spoken. "The Tree of Meaning" is a book of critical prose composed in the same way." Together, these thirteen lectures present a superbly grounded approach to the study of language, focusing on storytelling, mythology, comparative literature, humanity ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $9.46! \| SVS
18 view cover	The Passing: Perspectives of Rural America more books like this by Ferrol Sams, Jim Harrison add to wishlist The rural American landscape is fading like old lumber on the side of a barn, victim of urban sprawl and modernization. But the vision of this landscape, of its color and smells, is vivid and alive in the pens and brushes of Ferrol Sams and Jim Harrison. 60 full-color paintings, 12 illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $84.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	After Ikkyu & Other Poems more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Ikkyu was a 15th-century Zen poet-priest, and Harrison, a longtime Zen practitioner, claims that these poems are directly inspired by his experiences with Zen. see all copies from $3.66! new only from $10.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20	Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist A collection of essays on subjects that range from cooking to fishing to writing. Mostly published originally as magazine articles, these pieces reflect many of the themes (i.e., outdoor life, sportsmanship, travel) that recur in Harrison's fiction. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $30.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Novelist Jim Harrison claims that poetry "is the portion of my life that means the most to me." Most fans of his fiction may not know that, since 1965, he has published as much poetry as he has fiction. This collection covers some of the same subjects that his novels do: relationships with women, food, hunting, and nature. It includes poems from ... see all copies from $11.80! new only from $99.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Sundog more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Recovering from a fall down the face of a three-hundred-foot dam in South American, Robert Corvus Strang, a self-educated foreman who works on giant dam projects, recalls his hard but exhilarating life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Warlock more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist Johnny, alias the Warlock, is an unemployed executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a mid-life crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. Hired to troubleshoot for a doctor, Warlock finds himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist The novelist Jim Harrison changes his focus from fiction to food in this collection of essays. A hearty and eclectic eater, Harrison includes among his favorites French wine, garlic, game, and pigs' feet. He also writes about his problems with his weight and his digestion. see all copies from $4.96! new only from $7.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Saving Daylight more books like this by Jim Harrison add to wishlist "Harrison doesn't write like anyone else, relying entirely on the toughness of his vision and intensity of feeling to form the poem... here's a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language."-"Publishers Weekly" "One is simply content to be in the presence of a writer this ... see all copies from $3.79! new only from $9.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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