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Legends of the Fall
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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 ...
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The Road Home
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This multi-narrated sequel to DALVA covers the story of three generations of a Nebraska family. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
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Dalva
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An American epic, rich in atmosphere and history, here is the story of a magnificent, unforgettable woman--a tale that sweeps from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam.
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The Woman Lit by Fireflies
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Jim Harrison
The title novella (of three) is about a woman who, on an impulse, leaves her husband at a turnpike rest stop.
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True North
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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, ...
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Julip
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Jim Harrison
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 ...
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The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
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Jim Harrison
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.
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Returning to Earth
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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 ...
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Farmer
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Jim Harrison
A tangled love story set amid the wilds of northern Michigan. Joseph Lundgren, the farmer of the title, lives alone on the backwoods farm he grew up on. Teaching in the village school, he falls in deeply in love with one of his students just as an ancient, unrequited love comes back into his life after a long absence.
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The Beast God Forgot to Invent
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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 ...
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Sundog
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Subtitled "The Story of an American Foreman, Robert Corvus Strang", Harrison's novel makes the life of dam-builder Stang into a heroic narrative.
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Warlock
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Jim Harrison
The offbeat adventures of Johnny Lundgren, the Everyman hero of Harrison's FARMER. In this episode, Johnny is happily married but unhappily unemployed in the northern Michigan town he has lived in all his life. Diana, his new wife, lands him a job with a crackpot inventor who is making a fortune from a newly patented prosthetic device for ...
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Off to the Side: A Memoir
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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.
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Wolf: A False Memoir
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Jim Harrison
Harrison's first novel is a "false memoir" by a latter-day Thoreau, who has gone back to the land in northern Michigan. Carol Swanson is a 33-year-old recluse who has left an unhappy life in New York to return to the rural Midwest of his youth. Prowling the forests for a glimpse of wolves by day, Swanson recalls the aimlessness of his early years ...
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Good Day to Die
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Jim Harrison
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The Summer He Didn't Die
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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 ...
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Saving Daylight
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Jim Harrison
"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 ...
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Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry
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Jim Harrison, Ted Kooser
"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 ...
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The Passing: Perspectives of Rural America
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Ferrol Sams, Jim Harrison
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.
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The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems
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Jim Harrison
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 ...
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Diggin' in and Piggin' Out: The Truth about Food and Men
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Roger Welsch, Jim Harrison (Foreword by)
Both men and women are lovers of food and both will laugh out loud as CBS's "Sunday Morning" correspondent Roger Welsch takes them on a tour of the manly world of cooking and eating. From tips on how to make Gin and Tonic BBQ Ribs (drink while you cook) to anecdotes about a man's ideal restaurant to places to cook man-sized meals (huge firepits ...
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Off to the Side
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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.
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Just Before Dark: Collected Nonfiction
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Jim Harrison
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.
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After Ikkyu & Other Poems
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Jim Harrison
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.
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The Boy Who Ran to the Woods
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Jim Harrison, Tom Pohrt (Illustrator)
Jim Harrison writes a story for children about Jimmy, who learns about nature, endurance, and redemption after he suffers a serious injury. Illustrations are by Tom Pohrt.
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