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"This tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of unpublished "Last Poems."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: "About an aging writer in Montana who's at the stage of his career when his work is increasingly discussed in terms of his legacy. He indulges his lifelong dream of raising pigs, struggles to write the "big novel" he's rashly promised his editor, and attempts to rekindle the long marriage that has sustained him."--[Cover]
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove 2016
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Summary: A collection of novellas explores the line between civilization and the "wild men."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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Summary: "Of all [Jim Harrison's] creations, Brown Dog has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance, scrambling to stay out of jail after his salvage-diving operation uncovers the frozen body of an Indian man in the waters of Lake Superior. Now, for the first time, this book gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clark City Press 1991
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Harrison, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Publications 1979
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Harrison, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001
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Summary: Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed aperçus and keen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2004
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Summary: John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployed foundation executive whose life is about to become unhinged. After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job. He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil than Professor Moriarty. Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta/S. Lawrence 1989
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Harrison, Jim
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: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence 1990
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Harrison, Jim
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