About this title: 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 Go to Spain"). A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
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Description: Good. Purchasing this DVD supports the North Central Regional Library. Thriftbooks and NCRL have partnered to help raise additional funds for the library system. Library ID found on DVD and case. Ex-Library book-will contain library markings. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138361ISBN:0802138365
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased; moderate edge wear/ corners and spine creased/ eraders slant/ several pages and page tips creased. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780871138217ISBN:0871138212
Description: Good. Library withdrawal in the plastic, protective covers. First blank page clipped by the library. Stamped at the page edge, this edition is still useful and presentable. CLEAN! Economically priced for your needs. read more
Edition: Stated 1st Edition: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780871138217ISBN:0871138212
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 274 Pages. Measures: 6-1/4" x 9-1/2" Clean, tight copy with no writing or markings. Not an Ex-Library Book or a Book Club Edition. Colorfully illustrated dust jacket. Includes 3 complete novellas and a photograph and a brief biography of the author. read more
Description: Good. 0802138365 20198 PB: spine smooth, text clean, cover has slight shelf wear-allow up to 21 business days for standard USPS media m a i l. wt1lbpf. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: 10/30/2000
ISBN-13:9780871138217ISBN:0871138212
Description: Very Good. 0871138212 Fine/Fine in Mylar DJ, Stated 1st edition, full number line present (1st printing), clean & bright, not a remainder. (edition: 1st Edition)...All books are packaged with care to protect the corners. Ships same or next bussness day. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2001-11-06
ISBN-13:9780802138361ISBN:0802138365
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2001-11-06
ISBN-13:9780802138361ISBN:0802138365
Description: New. Book is Brand New, Gift condition. Free tracking # included! International buyers are welcome. We ship every business day. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2001-11-06
ISBN-13:9780802138361ISBN:0802138365
Description: New. Book is Brand New, Gift condition. Free tracking # included! International buyers are welcome. We ship every business day. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2001-11-06
ISBN-13:9780802138361ISBN:0802138365
Description: New. Book is Brand New, Gift condition. Free tracking # included! International buyers are welcome. We ship every business day. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780871138217ISBN:0871138212
Description: Near Fine in Good + jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall; Dj. clean, has bumped upper back edge, clean, tight book, pages like new looking. 274 pp. read more
Description: Good; 2001. 0802138365. Very lightly used with mild shelfwear at open corner tips. Unmarked.; Softcover; Grove Press; New York; First Printing; 0.74 x 8.36 x 5.56 Inches; 274 pages; , read more
Description: HC blk/brown binding. HC clean tight copy/VG/no tears clean. First Edition stated 1 present. 9.25 By 6.25" HC 274pgs. Praise for Jim Harrison--His stories move with randon power. read more
Edition: 1st American printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780871138217ISBN:0871138212
Description: As New. in As New. jacket. Book read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138361ISBN:0802138365
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Light cover lift and edge wear. Binding is straight and tight, text is unmarked. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780802138361ISBN:0802138365
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Clean and tight-unused copy-Excellent! ! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 274 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"Westward Ho is absolutely the best one of the bunch. The passage about seeing a bear rooting through a garbage can only to look up when Rochester (Jack Benny's bud) yelled "Cucamonga!" on the radio made me feel all the more normal. His grandfather's "Batten your gob!" polished the whole paragraph off as one of the best things I've ever read in my life."
"I was torn between four and five stars, but I could have gone either way. This book didn't quite grab me as hard as Dalva, his great novel, did, but that's hardly a criticism, since Dalva was so incredible.
A man has a head injury and veers off into another reality, one where he lives in the woods and sleeps in a hammock high in the trees and becomes so close to bears he can put collars on them. That sounds sort of fairy-tale-ish, but the young man is tortured. He can't speak clearly enough to be understood, won't take the medication that keeps him somewhat manageable, and no longer follows normal social rules and morals. Whatever is going on in his mind is incomprehensible to his friends and keepers, but they track him as if he's a rare animal and do their best to keep him from disaster. When he is found drowned, the narrator does his best to explain to the coroner what might have happened. The story is, natch, really about the narrator, a lonely old curmudgeon with a lot of money and no friends who became caught up in the young man's life.
Jim Harrison writes on so many levels at once, reading him is like driving through the striated canyons of the southwest. Oddly, this story reminded me of Tales of Hoffman by E. T. A. Hoffman. The strange young man could be seen as a grotesque, his entire being estranged from the normal world."
"These are really incredible. Three short stories that don't suffer from the problem that most short story collections have, which is that you can't remember which one is which. These are all incredible well-drawn and specific. And, as an added bonus for me, they take place in Northern Michigan and L.A. Fantastic."
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