Harrison, Jim
Summary: Jim Harrison tells the story of Joseph, a forty-three-year-old farmer and school teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers--one a younger woman, the other his beautiful childhood friend--he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or finally seek the wider, broader horizons he has avoided all his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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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: 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: Robert Corvus Strang worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled by a fall. As he tries to regain use of his legs, a blasé journalist arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more 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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Summary: New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In The Ancient Minstrel, Harrison delivers three novellas that highlight his phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition. Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: Of all Jim Harrison's creations, Brown Dog--a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian--has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. For the first time, Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume. In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: The farmer's daughter: Written in the voice of a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl in rural Montana, is a tale of an extraordinary character whose youth intersects with unexpected brutality, and the reserves she must draw on to make herself whole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2010
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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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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Summary: The publication of this magnificent trilogy of short novels--Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name--confirmed Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American writers of his generation. These absorbing novellas explore the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals are threatened, adding up to an extraordinary vision of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: Five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. As the family grapples with the mysterious forces that both pull them apart and draw them inextricably back together, they must come to terms with life's greatest and hardest lessons: the deception of passion, the pain of love, the vitality of art, and the supplication to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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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: Blackstone Audio 2009
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Summary: Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in that he realizes his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader. A family of outlaws armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcemtn too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson's cleaning lady, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in than he realizes his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader did. A family of outlaws, armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson's cleaning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: Beautiful, fearless, and tormented, at forty-five Dalva has lived a life of adventures. Now, she begins a journey back to the Nebraska prairie where she was born and the son she gave up for adoption years ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: There are three different stories in The farmer's daughter. Written in the voice of a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl in rural Montana, the title novella is an uncompromising, beautiful tale of an extraordinary character whose youth intersects with unexpected brutality and of the reserves she must draw on to make herself whole. In another story, Harrison's beloved recurring character, Brown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2010
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Summary: Even with retirement in view, Detective Sunderson decides to investigate a cult that has settled near his home nonetheless. Although their so-called 'Great Leader' initially appears to be harmless, Sunderson and his teenage sidekick unearth some startling information. As he digs deeper, Sunderson's search for the Great Leader's true intentions takes him from Michigan to Arizona to Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2011
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Summary: A trio of novellas. In "Julip" a woman attempts to free a brother who has been jailed for shooting her three lovers. The "Seven Ounce Man" continues the picaresque adventures of Brown Dog, a Michigan scoundrel who loves to eat, drink, and chase women, all while sailing along in the bottom ten percent. In "The Beige Dolorosa" a professor is excommunicated from academia for not being politically...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2009
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2007
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Summary: Johnny Lundgren is an unemployed foundation executive who, after surviving a midlife crisis, finally decides to get a job. He soon gets hired by a crazy but genius doctor as a trouble-shooter, where he's tasked with everything battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan to investigating his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Wolf tells the story of a man who, after too many nameless women and drunken nights, leaves Manhattan to roam the wilderness of northern Michigan, hoping to catch a glimpse of the rare wolves that prowl that territory.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019