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Jim Harrison IN SEARCH OF SMALL GODS
PERSEUS / RUNNING PRESS 1556593198 / 9781556593192 Paperback BOOK
Harrison is one of America's most celebrated & versatile writers. In his twelfth book of poems, birds & humans converse, biographies are fluid, & unknown gods flutter just out of sight. In terrains real & imagined?from remote canyons & anonymous thickets in the American West to secret basements in World War II Europe?Harrison calls his readers to live fully in a world where "Death steals everything except our stories." This is an urgent & imaginative book. 6x9 inches, 104 pgs.
'Named a "Top Ten 2009 Poetry Best Seller" from Poetry Foundation
Jim Harrison is one of America's most celebrated & versatile writers. In his twelfth book of poems, In Search of Small Gods, birds & humans converse, biographies are fluid, & unknown gods flutter just out of sight. In terrains real & imagined'from remote canyons & anonymous thickets in the American West to secret basements in World War II Europe'Harrison calls his readers to live fully in a world where "Death steals everything except our stories." In Search of Small Gods is an urgent & imaginative book, one filled with "the spore of the gods."
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Jim Harrison Off To The Side: A Memoir
PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST 0802140300 / 9780802140302 Paperback BOOK
Award-winning literary giant Harrison has put pen to paper to write about his own life - a life that is the root of his wonderful fiction. He gives free rein to his "seven obsessions" - alcohol, food, stripping, hunting & fishing (& dogs), religion, the road, & our place in the natural world. 6x8 inches, 320 pgs.
'Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Off to the Side is the tale of one of America's most beloved writers. Jim Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the Depression and the Second World War, and the seemingly greater austerities of his starchy Swedish forebears. He chronicles his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with books to a young man making his way among fellow writers he deeply admires ' including Peter Matthiessen, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Allen Ginsberg. Harrison discusses forthrightly the life-changing experience of becoming a father, and the minor cognitive dissonance that ensued when this boy from the "heartland" somehow ended up a highly paid Hollywood screenwriter.
He gives free rein to his "seven obsessions" ' alcohol, food, stripping, hunting and fishing (and the dogs who have accompanied him in both), religion, the road, and our place in the natural world ' which he elucidates with earthy wisdom and an elegant sense of connectedness. Off to the Side is a work of great beauty and importance, a triumphant achievement that captures the writing life and brings all of us clues for living.
For nearly forty years, Jim Harrison has been one of America's most beloved writers, an award-winning literary giant who has given us such American classics as Dalva, Legends of the Fall, and The Road Home. And he is perhaps just as loved for his personality -- gleefully devoted to life's sensual pleasures, staunchly unpretentious, and ever mindful of the dangers of straying too far from our origin. Now, for the first time, Jim Harrison has put pen to paper to write about his own life -- a life that is the root of his wonderful fiction, and which he captures with a riveting directness and a delightful, peculiar music. Harrison returns always to his love of literature -- from his first awakenings to the power of writing in his teens, and his youthful decision to model himself on Rimbaud; how books have remained his center, sustaining him during the darkest times of his life. Above all, he delivers a joyful, meditative, candid, and wise book that is a paean to the complex delights of life. Now, for the first time, Harrison has been willing to share his immense spirit with readers in a most personal way. Off to the Side is a work of great beauty and importance that is sure to delight.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:
"...full of heart and wisdom...rambling, poetic, big-hearted, expansive--just like the wise man who wrote it." --The Oregonian
"Reading Jim Harrison is ... as close as one can come in contemporary fiction to experiencing the abundant pleasures of living." -- The Boston Globe
"Harrison has quietly established one of the deeper canons in modern American letters." -- William Porter, The Denver Post
"Somewhere in that big literary acreage staked out by Thoreau, Hemingway, and Hunter Thompson is a ... space for Jim Harrison." -- Playboy
"Jim Harrison's work is a big, wet, sloppy kiss [that] Harrison continues to plant on the face of life itself." -- The New York Times Book Review
* Selected as a Book Sense 76 title
* Selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year
* A national best-seller in hardcover
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It was a warm, late April afternoon heavy with the scent of dogwood buds. I was thinking about my first love who had recently abandoned me because I was unwilling to marry right after high school.
After a long time sitting on a log, perhaps an hour, my mind emptied out into the landscape and my preoccupations with the girl and other problems leaked away. In the stillness garter snakes emerged feeding on flies that buzzed close to the ground among dead leaves and burgeoning greenery. Birds came very close because I had been so still in my sumpish reveries I had ceased to exist to the birds, and gradually to myself. I had become nature and the brain that fueled my various torments had decided to take a rest by leaving my body and existing playfully in the landscape. The air became warmer and moister, so much so that the air seemed densely palpable, swollen enough to touch. It did not so much begin to rain as the air quite suddenly became full of water. Given the circumstances the rain could not help but be a baptism. The natural world would always be there to save me from suffocating in my human problems.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jim Harrison is the author of four volumes of novellas, The Beast God Forgot to Invent, Legends of the Fall, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, and Julip; seven novels, The Road Home, Wolf, A Good Day to Die, Farmer, Warlock, Sundog, and Dalva; seven collections of poetry, including most recently The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems; and two collections of nonfiction, Just Before Dark and The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand. The winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association, his work has been published in 22 languages.
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Jim Harrison Returning To Earth: A Novel
PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST 0802143310 Paperback BOOK
A tender, profound, & magnificent novel about life, death, & finding redemption in unlikely places. A deeply moving book about origins & endings, & how to live with honor for the dead. 6x9 inches, 272 pgs.
'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 Chippewa-Finnish man, begins dictating family stories he has never shared with anyone, hoping to preserve history for his children. The dignity of Donald's death and his legacy encourages his loved ones to find a way to redeem'and let go of'the past, whether through his daughter's emersion in Chippewa religious ideas or his mourning wife's attempt to escape the malevolent influence of her own father. A deeply moving book about origins and endings, and how to live with honor for the dead, Returning to Earth is one of the finest novels of Harrison's long, storied career, and will confirm his standing as one of the most important American writers now working.
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K looked a bit haggard, perhaps from the effort of trying to bring equilibrium to Clare. I was looking at him trying to think of something helpful to say in Clare's absence but then he disappeared behind the memory of a dream I had been having on the porch swing. The dream was chaotic but began with milk cows and numbers. Around the turn of the century, say from 1890 to 1910 when mine disasters were at their worst in terms of fatality numbers the victims' families in company housing were welcome to stay in the housing but only for a month. For this time the families continued to have the use of a milk cow. I had seen old photos of these often gaunt milk cows in rocky pastures near the company row houses and women on stools milking the cows into buckets often with children watching. For a moment in the dream I thought I saw Cynthia on a stool but the woman more closely resembled my mother. Then numbers began to appear in the landscape. Numbers often marred my interesting dreams but in this case Donald was number one but the number was blurred. This was an area where in three major mines nearly two thousand men had died in a twenty year period. In the dream I finally understood that death and numbers don't cohere. Everyone is 'one.' An accident report might say that nine died, four of them in their teens, but each death was 'one.' Each of six million Jews was 'one.' With death it is a series of 'ones.'
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
JIM HARRISON is the author of over 25 books of fiction, nonfiction, & poetry. The winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, his work has been published in 22 languages.
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Jim Harrison The Beast God Forgot To Invent
PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST 0802138365 / 9780802138361 Paperback BOOK
New collection of novellas about wild men & civilization, from one of the major American writers of our time. Stories of humans & beasts, culture & wildness, men driven crazy by longing and of men who dream they are becoming bears. 6x9 inches, 256 pgs.
'Jim Harrison is an American master, and The Beast God Forgot to Invent is a book that The New York Times Book Review called "a big, wet, sloppy kiss [that] Harrison continues to plant on the face of life itself." These are stories of culture and wildness, of men and beasts and where they overlap. A wealthy man retired to the Michigan woods narrates the tale of a younger man decivilized by brain damage. A Michigan Indian wanders Los Angeles, hobnobbing with starlets and screenwriters while he tracks an ersatz Native-American activist who stole his bearskin. An aging "alpha canine, " the author of three dozen throwaway biographies, eats dinner with the ex-wife of his overheated youth, and must confront the man he used to be. As The Plain Dealer put it, "The Beast God Forgot to Invent is a proud addition to the Harrison oeuvre. It is exhilarating to watch a master at work."
"It's simply thrilling to see a writer reach for the sky and actually grab it." - Jonathan Miles, Salon
"One of our finest living writers." - Richard Kilgore, The Dallas Morning News
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jim Harrison is the author of the volumes of novellas Legends of the Fall, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, and Julip; the novels The Road Home, Wolf, A Good Day to Die, Farmer, Warlock, Sundog, and Dalva; seven poetry collections; and a collection of nonfiction, Just Before Dark. The winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the MPBA's Spirit of the West Award, his work has been published in twenty-two languages.
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Jim Harrison THE ENGLISH MAJOR
PERSEUS / RUNNING PRESS 0802144144 / 9780802144140 Paperback BOOK
?It used to be Cliff & Vivian & now it isn?t.? A riotous, moving novel that sends a 60-something man, divorced & robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States. This is the map of a man?s journey into?& out of?himself, & it is vintage Harrison?reflective, big-picture American, & replete with wicked wit.5.5x8 inches, 272 pgs.
'A wrenchingly funny cross-country novel from the critically acclaimed author of Returning to Earth, The Summer He Didn't Die, & True North.
Jim Harrison has been called 'a writer with immortality in him' by London's Sunday Times & The New York Times Book Review has written that '[his] storytelling instincts are nearly flawless.' Harrison's last novel, Returning to Earth, was one of his most praised in years, hailed by The Plain Dealer as 'an artistic achievement worthy of Faulkner.' Now Harrison gives us The English Major, a wryly funny novel that sparkles with the generous humanity of his vision.
'It used to be Cliff & Vivian & now it isn't.' With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that sends a sixty-something man, divorced & robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States & a mission to rename all the states & state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high school'teacher days twenty-some years before, to a 'snake farm' in Arizona owned by an old classmate; & to the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer who has just bought an apartment over the Presidio in San Francisco.
The English Major is the map of a man's journey into'& out of'himself, & it is vintage Harrison'reflective, big-picture American, & replete with wicked wit.
WHAT THE EXPERTS ARE SAYING:
'Young men, old men, you see them hitting the road in the movies all the time. In novels it's been mostly young men. . . . In The English Major, a bawdy & engaging new novel by Jim Harrison, the best Midwestern-born writer never to leave the region, we get to see the older-man variation. . . . Told in an utterly believable, if somewhat flat-footed first-person voice (the old brown Taurus of modern American narration), the story remains the unflagging revelation of Cliff's attempt to shed his former life by crossing the boundaries of as many states of the Union as he can reach in a year. . . . It's never too early to put aside a great Father's Day gift. Wives, daughters of America, for your reading Papa, this ribald, questing, utterly charming & Zen-serious novel about being male, 60 & (well, almost) alone, is the book of the year. Guys, if you can't wait to get going, you ought to just plunk down your $24 right away & follow Cliff's trail.''Alan Cheuse, The Chicago Tribune
'Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold. . . . peppered with his characteristic insights & asides. . . . After a long & idiosyncratic literary career, Harrison the storyteller is still at the top of his game.''Tim McNulty, The Seattle Times
'Harrison's language seems to come straight from America's center of gravity, the core of the country where people still live by a code & think for themselves. . . . After 25 books Harrison is . . . closing in on the status of a national treasure.''Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure
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Gary Snyder & Jim Harrison THE ETIQUETTE OF FREEDOM
PERSEUS / RUNNING PRESS
Snyder joins novelist Harrison, to discuss their loves & lives. They are humorous & friendly, & the discussion reaches a level of not only the personal, but the global, redefining our idea of the Beat Generation & challenging the future directions of the environmental movement. The DVD includes the film, out-takes & expanded interviews. The whole offers a rare glimpse of their extended discussion of life & what it means to be wild & alive. 6x9 inches, 160 pgs.
'Gary Snyder joined his old friend, novelist Jim Harrison, to discuss their loves & lives & what has become of them throughout the years. Set amidst the natural beauty of the Santa Lucia Mountains, their conversations'harnessing their ideas of all that is wild, sacred & intimate in this world'move from the admission that Snyder's mother was a devout atheist to his personal accounts of his initiation into Zen Buddhist culture, being literally dangled by the ankles over a cliff. After years of living in Japan, Snyder returns to the States to build a farmhouse in the remote foothills of the Sierras, a homestead he calls Kitkitdizze.
For all of the depth in these conversations, Jim Harrison & Gary Snyder are humorous & friendly, & with the artfully interspersed dialogue from old friends & loves like Scott Slovic, Michael McClure, Jack Shoemaker, & Joanne Kyger, the discussion reaches a level of not only the personal, but the global, redefining our idea of the Beat Generation & challenging the future directions of the environmental movement & its association with 'Deep Ecology.'
The Etiquette of Freedom is an all-encompassing companion to the film The Practice of the Wild. A DVD is included which contains the film together with more than an hour of out-takes & expanded interviews, as well as an extended reading by Gary Snyder. The whole offers a rare glimpse of their extended discussion of life & what it means to be wild & alive.
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Jim Harrison THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER
PERSEUS / RUNNING PRESS 0802119344 / 9780802119346 Hardcover BOOK
This is an unforgettable portrait of 3 decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, & an unmatched depth of spirit & humanity, Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished & important authors at work today. It is full meal of a book-a rich & rewarding visit to the world of an American master. 5.5x8 inches, 384 pgs.
'"Jim Harrison's most ambitious & stunning collection of novellas since Legends of the Fall, The Farmer's Daughter is an unforgettable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, & an unmatched depth of spirit & humanity, Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished & important authors at work today.
The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter display a writer whose gift is in full flower. The title novella is the uncompromising, heartbreaking tale of Sarah, 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. In the rapture of playing music, riding her horse, & enjoying the natural world, Sarah searches for clues to understand her own coming of age. But when her mother runs off with another man, the girl is left to deal with an act of unexpected brutality that will test her faith in the world she is starting to embrace.
In Brown Dog Redux, Harrison shifts to the lighter side. The beloved recurring character Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. But Toronto has run out of welcome & BD, still looking for love, enlists the help of an unexpected benefactor to sneak Berry back into the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins, with riotously funny results.
Harrison's final tale, Games of Night, is the witty, ribald, & occasionally harrowing memoir of a retired werewolf in contemporary times. Misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, he attempts to lead a normal life, but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, & outbursts of violence under the full moon. The Farmer's Daughter is a full meal of a book-a rich & rewarding visit to the world of an American master.
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Jim Harrison THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER
PERSEUS / RUNNING PRESS 0802145027 / 9780802145024 Paperback BOOK
This is an unforgettable portrait of 3 decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, & an unmatched depth of spirit & humanity, Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished & important authors at work today. It is full meal of a book-a rich & rewarding visit to the world of an American master. 5.5x8 inches, 320 pgs.
'"Jim Harrison's most ambitious & stunning collection of novellas since Legends of the Fall, The Farmer's Daughter is an unforgettable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, & an unmatched depth of spirit & humanity, Harrison has again reminded us why he is one of the most cherished & important authors at work today.
The three stories in The Farmer's Daughter display a writer whose gift is in full flower. The title novella is the uncompromising, heartbreaking tale of Sarah, 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. In the rapture of playing music, riding her horse, & enjoying the natural world, Sarah searches for clues to understand her own coming of age. But when her mother runs off with another man, the girl is left to deal with an act of unexpected brutality that will test her faith in the world she is starting to embrace.
In Brown Dog Redux, Harrison shifts to the lighter side. The beloved recurring character Brown Dog is killing time in Toronto where he's fled to save his adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. But Toronto has run out of welcome & BD, still looking for love, enlists the help of an unexpected benefactor to sneak Berry back into the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins, with riotously funny results.
Harrison's final tale, Games of Night, is the witty, ribald, & occasionally harrowing memoir of a retired werewolf in contemporary times. Misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, he attempts to lead a normal life, but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, & outbursts of violence under the full moon. The Farmer's Daughter is a full meal of a book-a rich & rewarding visit to the world of an American master.
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Jim Harrison THE GREAT LEADER
PERSEUS / RUNNING PRESS 0802119700 / 9780802119704 Hardcover BOOK
'Author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including Returning to Earth, Legends of the Fall and 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 a hedonistic cult, which has set up camp near his home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but as Sunderson and his sixteen-year-old sidekick dig deeper, they find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized. Recently divorced and frequently pickled in alcohol, Sunderson tracks his quarry from the woods of Michigan to a town in Arizona, filled with criminal border-crossers, and on to Nebraska, where the Great Leader's most recent recruits have gathered to glorify his questionable religion. But Sunderson's demons are also in pursuit of him.
Rich with character and humor, The Great Leader is at once a gripping excursion through America's landscapes and the poignant story of a man grappling with age, lost love and his own darker nature.
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Jim Harrison The Raw And The Cooked: Adventures Of A Roving Gourmand
PUBLISHERS GROUP WEST 080213937X / 9780802139375 Paperback BOOK
"Where is the food book?" is a question that never fails to come up at Harrison's readings. The Raw and the Cooked answers that question with a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite. 6x9 inches, 320 pgs.
'Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular stylist with a salty wisdom. For over twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best food criticism around -- in fact, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland), in a review of The Beast God Forgot to Invent, praised its "great helpings of Harrison's expert, lush writing on food and wine." Now, for the first time, all of Harrison's food writing is available in one volume. Any reader of Harrison's fiction is struck by the love for food, wine, and other sensual pleasures that permeates it -- and anyone who has read his essays and journalism has encountered a food critic unlike any other: unpretentious, witty, and unabashedly passionate. The Raw and the Cooked delivers the long-awaited complete collection, from his Smart and Esquire columns, to present-day pieces including a lengthy correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle and fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men's Journal. "Where is the food book'" is a question that never fails to come up at Harrison's readings. The Raw and the Cooked answers that question with a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jim Harrison is the author of the volumes of novellas Legends of the Fall, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, and Julip; the novels The Road Home, Wolf, A Good Day to Die, Farmer, Warlock, Sundog, and Dalva; seven poetry collections; and a collection of nonfiction, Just Before Dark. The winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the MPBA's Spirit of the West Award, his work has been published in twenty-two languages.
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Jim Harrison The Theory & Practice Of Rivers And New Poems
CLARK CITY PRESS. 0944439101 / 9780944439104 Paperback BOOK
Harrison waxes more philosophical & romantic than in any of his previous poetry collections. Russell Chatham, Illustrator. 9x6 inches; 88 pgs.
'Mourning the death of his 16-year-old niece, Gloria, to whom this work is dedicated, Harrison (Legends of the Fall; Dalva) here waxes more philosophical and romantic than in any of his previous poetry collections. His New Age ideology is problematic, however, in its attempts to combine primitive myths with a landscape he has absorbed firsthand. The natural world of northern Michigan reflected in the poems will be familiar to readers of Harrison's fiction, but the transformation of ordinary creatures into spiritual beings will ring false. The long title poem, comprising nearly half the book, is a rambling, often surrealistic meditation on the meaning of life and death, begging comparison to a river journey in which ``how the water goes / is how the earth is shaped.'' Fragmented at best, this and other poems in the book's first section touch memories of people and rivers that fill the narrator's past, but do not adequately share these with the reader. Ten poems appearing in print for the first time, which end the collection, are less ambitious, but far more successful in exploring casual moments and conveying a sense of their importance.
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