Harrison, Jim
Summary: After being blinded in one eye, a young boy becomes wild and unruly, until he discovers the wonders of nature in the Michigan woods near his family's summer cabin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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Summary: A middle-aged man who has taught for twenty-three years, more from habit than total commitment to his profession, is forced to come to terms with his identity, farm life, thirty-year marriage, and affair with an eighteen-year-old student in a Michigan community of the 1950's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell, c1976. 1989
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Summary: The farmer's daughter: Sarah is a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl recently transplanted by her somewhat oblivious parents to rural Montana, who is learning that the world is larger than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know. Brown Dog redux: Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. Games of night: A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2010
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Summary: "This tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of unpublished "Last Poems." Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem "correspondence"with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a buoyant conversation in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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Summary: In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece--a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2007
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Summary: This collection of novellas is Jim Harrison at his most memorable--a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive--a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years--reluctantly returns to his family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2013
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 1998
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Summary: Five members of the Northridge family narrate the epic of their history on the Nebraska plains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1999
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Summary: The summer he didn't die: Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren on meager resources; it helps that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town. Republican wives: A riotous satire on the sexual neuroses of the political right and the irrational nature of love--which, when thwarted, can easily turn into an urge to murder. Tracking: The author's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2005
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Summary: Novellas comprising a sweeping tribute to the nation's heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1990
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Summary: Author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In his most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel following one man's hunt for an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader. On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson begins to investigate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2011
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Summary: Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at 45 Dalva has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now she returns to the bosom of her family and searches for the son she gave up years before.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence 1988
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Summary: When his wife divorces him and robs him of his farmland, sixty-year-old Cliff road trips across America, intent on eliminating blandness by renaming the fifty states and their state birds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Copper Canyon Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence 1994
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Summary: Two novellas provide insight into the human condition as a sixty-year-old art history academic embarks on an unexpected journey of discovery and a young farm boy is drawn to the water of Lake Michigan as an escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2013
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Pub. Co. 1982
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Summary: Recovering from a fall down the face of a three-hundred-foot dam in South America, Robert Corvus Strang, a self-educated foreman who works on giant dam projects, recalls his hard but exhilarating life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton/Seymour Lawrence 1984
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Harrison, Jim
Summary: The long title sequence of Harrison's seventh poetry collection is a journey upward from tragedy and unconsciousness, a fitful amalgam of memory and myth, meditation and nightmare, lucidity and delirium. It's the life-passing-before-one's-eyes at the precipice of death rendered in tranquility. In "trying to become alert enough to live, '' the narrator sinks and surfaces, clutching at vivid bits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Winn Books 1986
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Summary: The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is more a malevolent force than a father, and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1971