Harrison, Jim
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2004
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1971
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Summary: The son of a wealthy family of timber barons struggles to reconcile himself with the damage his family has done to Michigan's Upper Peninsula--a scarring that cuts deeply into the fabric of his own family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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Summary: Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them -- at first. With their ideals ostensibly in order, they set out from Florida to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1973
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2004
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Summary: In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007