<div>Jim Harrison&rsquo;s first novel&mdash;a walk on the wild side from &ldquo;a force of nature in American letters&rdquo; (The Seattle Times). The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry&mdash;including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth&mdash;Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. Praised as &ldquo;a raunchy, funny, swaggering, angry, cocksure book,&rdquo; Wolf tells the story of a man who abandons Manhattan after too many nameless women and drunken nights, to roam the wilderness of northern Michigan, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the rare wolves that prowl that territory (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;When you turn the last page and Swanson&rsquo;s voice stops, you want to flip back and keep listening.&rdquo; &mdash;The Examiner</div>

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Wolf

<div>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Legends of the Fall: &ldquo;Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold&rdquo; (Tim McNulty, The Seattle Times). &ldquo;It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn&rsquo;t.&rdquo; With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that sends a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America. Cliff is armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds, the latter of which have been unjustly saddled with white men&rsquo;s banal monikers up until now. His adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high-school-teacher days twenty-some years before, to a &ldquo;snake farm&rdquo; in Arizona owned by an old classmate, and 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. Jim Harrison&rsquo;s riotous and moving cross-country novel, The English Major, is the map of a man&rsquo;s journey into, and out of, himself. It is vintage Harrison&mdash;reflective, big-picture American, and replete with wicked wit. &ldquo;The English Major is to midlife crisis what The Catcher in the Rye is to adolescence.&rdquo; &mdash;Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times</div>

The English Major

<div>&ldquo;A wild ride . . . [and] a thoroughly enjoyable tale of religion, sex and money . . . this is not your grandfather&rsquo;s detective novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Tim McNulty, The Seattle Times New York Times&ndash;bestselling 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 this enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel, he follows one man on a hunt for an elusive cult founder, dubbed &ldquo;The Great Leader.&rdquo; On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson begins to investigate a hedonistic cult, which has set up camp near his home in Michigan&rsquo;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&rsquo;s most recent recruits have gathered to glorify his questionable religion. But Sunderson&rsquo;s demons are also in pursuit of him. &ldquo;Jim Harrison is unsurpassed at chronicling man&rsquo;s relationship with wilderness . . . The Great Leader is hugely enjoyable.&rdquo; &mdash;Tom Bissell, Outside Magazine</div>

The Great Leader

<div>Twenty-five years of essays from one of America&rsquo;s most prolific and acclaimed writers, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Legends of the Fall. The bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry&mdash;including Dalva and Returning to Earth&mdash;Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In Just Before Dark, Harrison&rsquo;s essays and articles have been selected from twenty-five years of work, from venues as diverse as Playboy, The Nation, Outside, and the American Poetry Review. They explore the passions and concerns of a classic American writer&mdash;from ice fishing to bar pool, nouvelle cuisine and night walks&mdash;with keen insight and great humanity. It is an exceptional reminder of why Harrison was one of our most cherished and important writers. &ldquo;One of the most interesting and entertaining bodies of work by any writer of his generation.&rdquo; &mdash;Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune</div>

Just Before Dark

<div>Three novellas by the author of Legends of the Fall. &ldquo;A brilliant tour de force . . . Jim Harrison at his peak: comic, erotic, and insightful&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren&rsquo;t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected bounty. A band of sixties radicals, now approaching middle age, reunite to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail. A fifty-year-old suburban housewife flees quietly from her abusive businessman husband at a highway rest stop, climbs a fence, and explores the bittersweet pageant of the preceding years within the sanctuary of an Iowa cornfield. The Woman Lit by Fireflies is the work of a classic writer at the very top of his form&mdash;a hard-living, hard-writing hero of American letters whose novellas comprise a sweeping tribute to the nation&rsquo;s heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it. &ldquo;Funny, wild, sexy, and bizarre . . . Along with Richard Ford . . . Harrison has cornered the market in the tough-but-tender style that characterized Hemingway&rsquo;s early work.&rdquo; &mdash;Nick Hornby</div>

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

<div>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Legends of the Fall: a beautifully crafted story of one woman&rsquo;s journey to find her son. From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam&mdash;and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul. One of Harrison&rsquo;s most ambitious novels, Dalva explores an extraordinary family through the strong, engaging voice of an unforgettable woman, confirming Harrison as one of America&rsquo;s most memorable writers. &ldquo;There is no putting aside Dalva until the time bombs go off, the identities are revealed, and the skeletons almost literally tumble from the closets . . . Dalva is suspended in its own beauty.&rdquo; &mdash;Louise Erdrich, Chicago Tribune</div>

Dalva

<div>A road trip novel of three desperate souls fueled by drugs, alcohol, and delusions&mdash;from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Legends of the Fall. The author of thirty-nine books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. His novel, A Good Day to Die, centers on an unlikely trio: a poet with a tendency to lapse into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; a Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers, and violence; and a girl who loved only one of them&mdash;at first. With plans conceived during the madness of one long drunken night, the three of them leave Florida, driving west to buy a case of dynamite, determined to save the Grand Canyon from a dam they believe is about to be built. A Good Day to Die is an unrelenting tour de force, and a dark exploration of what it means to live beyond the pale in contemporary America. &ldquo;Mr. Harrison&rsquo;s perceptions are jagged and cutting . . . A remarkably well-plotted story.&rdquo; &mdash;Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times </div>

A Good Day to Die

<div>A cornucopia of culinary essays from &ldquo;the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious&rdquo; (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal). Jim Harrison was one of this country&rsquo;s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he also wrote some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: &ldquo;To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius&mdash;one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills his experiences into passionate, opinionated prose. Food, in this context, is more than food: It is a metaphor for life.&rdquo; From Harrison&rsquo;s legendary Smart and Esquire columns, to current works including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle, fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men&rsquo;s Journal, and a paean to the humble meatball, The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite. &ldquo;[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah.&rdquo; &mdash;Jane and Michael Stern, The New York Times Book Review</div>

The Raw and the Cooked

<div>An avid hunter and wildlife preservationist, the Field &amp; Stream contributor explores these seemingly opposed passions in this &ldquo;beautifully written&rdquo; memoir (The Bloomsbury Review). After traveling the globe on expeditions with world-class sportsmen, Guy de la Vald&eacute;ne purchased an eight hundred&ndash;acre farm outside Tallahassee and set out to raise and hunt his favorite game bird, bobwhite quail. But de la Vald&eacute;ne is also a naturalist at heart, and as he planted trees and divided fields, he found that running the farm compelled him to operate as both hunter and protector. Along the way, de la Vald&eacute;ne gets pulled into some eye-opening adventures: to a masterpiece of controlled burning performed by a Vietnam veteran in a helicopter with three hundred gallons of napalm, and to his own experiences building a dam to fill his pond. For a Handful of Feathers reconciles a passion for hunting with a deep sentiment for the wild. With sensitivity and patience, de la Vald&eacute;ne searches for his, and our, place in the natural world. &ldquo;A classic that compares well with Turgenev&rsquo;s A Sportsman&rsquo;s Notebook.&rdquo; &mdash;The Bloomsbury Review &ldquo;An American classic . . . A book as unapologetic as it is thoughtful about blood sport . . . [It] has the verbal spark and pace of a fine novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Gray&rsquo;s Sporting Journal &ldquo;A gem that will appeal not only to hunters but to all readers who love the land.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Valuable for its insight into quail behavior and its thoughtful address of hunting ethics.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

For a Handful of Feathers

<div>One of American literature&rsquo;s most significant authors delivers &ldquo;a coming-of-age story, a familial saga of estrangement . . . A slow-burning revenge tragedy&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family&rsquo;s desecration of the earth, and his own father&rsquo;s more personal violations, Jim Harrison&rsquo;s True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots. The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force 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 adulthood&mdash;often guided and enlightened by the unforgettable, intractable, courageous women he loves&mdash;he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers&rsquo; rapacious destruction of the woods of Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Peninsula, as well as the working people who made their wealth possible. Jim Harrison has given us a family tragedy of betrayal, amends, and justice for the worst sins. True North is a bravura performance from one of our finest writers, accomplished with deep humanity, humor, and redemptive soul. &ldquo;A provocative tale that explores the roots of wealth and privilege in America . . . Harrison&rsquo;s writing is superb, as always, rippling with thematic leaps and poetic insights.&rdquo; &mdash;The Oregonian</div>

True North

<div>An unforgettable collection of novellas from the author of Legends of the Fall explores the line between civilization and the &ldquo;wild men.&rdquo; Jim Harrison is an American master. The Beast God Forgot to Invent offers 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. &ldquo;Harrison&rsquo;s intricate symbolism and scathing observations of urban foibles, his sly humor and vibrant language remind readers that he is one of our most talented chroniclers of the masculine psyche, intellectual or not.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

The Beast God Forgot to Invent

<div>In one of Jim Harrison&rsquo;s greatest works, five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the Nebraska plains. The Road Home continues the story of the captivating heroine Dalva and her peculiar and remarkable family. It encompasses the voices of Dalva&rsquo;s grandfather John Northridge, the austere, hard-living half-Sioux patriarch; Naomi, the widow of his favorite son and namesake; Paul, the first Northridge son, who lived in the shadow of his brother; and Nelse, the son taken from Dalva at birth, who now has returned to find her. It is haunted by the hovering spirits of the father and the lover Dalva lost to this country&rsquo;s wars. It is a family history drenched in suffering and joy, imbued with fierce independence and love, rooted in the Nebraska soil, and intertwined with the destiny of whites and native Americans in the American West. Epic in scope, stretching from the close of the nineteenth century to the present day, The Road Home is a stunning and trenchant novel, written with the humor, humanity, and inimitable evocation of the American spirit that have delighted Jim Harrison&rsquo;s legion of fans. &ldquo;A graceful novel . . . To read this book is to feel the luminosity of nature in one&rsquo;s own being.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;The Road Home confirms what his longtime fans already know: Harrison is on the short list of American literary masters.&rdquo; &mdash;The Denver Post &ldquo;Demonstrates why [Harrison] is considered one of the best storytellers around.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post &ldquo;The Road Home is Harrison at the peak of his powers, a splendid combined prequel and sequel . . . very much alive and probably his best novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Boston Sunday Herald</div>

The Road Home

<div>In three novellas, Jim Harrison takes us on an American journey as he leads us through the wondrous landscape of the human heart. In this &ldquo;richly allusive and wickedly funny&rdquo; collection, Jim Harrison offers &ldquo;three delightful studies of unique individuals battling inventively against society&rsquo;s demands for conformity&rdquo; (Library Journal). Julip follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail&mdash;he shot three of her former lovers below the belt. 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 10 percent. The Beige Dolorosa is the haunting tale of an academic who, recovering from the repercussions of a sexual harassment scandal, turns to the natural world for solace. In each of these stories, the irresistible pull of nature becomes a magnificent backdrop for exploring the toughest questions about life and love.</div>

Julip

<div>Two outstanding late novellas from one of America&rsquo;s most beloved and critically acclaimed authors. A brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity, The River Swimmer is Jim Harrison at his most memorable. 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&rsquo;s Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal&mdash;of ardor for his high school love, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting. In Water Baby, Harrison ventures into the magical as an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to the water as an escape, and sees otherworldly creatures there. Faced with the injustice and pressure of coming of age, he takes to the river and follows its siren song all the way across Lake Michigan. The River Swimmer is a striking portrait of two richly-drawn, profoundly human characters, and an exceptional reminder of why Jim Harrison remains one of America&rsquo;s most cherished and important writers, on a par with such literary greats as Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. &ldquo;Trenchant and visionary . . . Harrison is a writer of the body, which he celebrates as the ordinary, essential and wondrous instrument by which we measure the world. Without it, there is no philosophy. And with it, of course, philosophy can be a rocky test. . . . I could feel Jim Harrison grinning . . . in his glorious novella The River Swimmer.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

The River Swimmer

<div>Three classic novellas from &ldquo;one of our master chroniclers of human hungers, flaws, and frustrations.&rdquo; (The Kansas City Star). Jim Harrison&rsquo;s vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master of the novella. His highly acclaimed volume of novellas, The Summer He Didn&rsquo;t Die, is a sparkling and exuberant collection about love, the senses, and family, no matter how untraditional. In the title novella, Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren and take care of his family&rsquo;s health on meager resources. (It helps a bit that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town.) Republican Wives is a wicked satire on the sexual neuroses of the right, the emptiness of a life lived for the status quo, and the irrational power of love that, when thwarted, can turn so easily into an urge to murder. And Tracking is a meditation on Harrison&rsquo;s fascination with place, telling his own familiar mythology through the places his life has seen and the intellectual loves he has known. With wit as sharp and prose as lush as any Harrison has yet written, The Summer He Didn&rsquo;t Die is a resonant, warm, and joyful ode to our journey on this earth. &ldquo;Harrison has proved to be one of our finest storytellers. These novellas are urgent and contemporary, displaying his marvelous gifts for compression and idiosyncratic language.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times</div>

The Summer He Didn't Die

<div>&ldquo;A sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life.&rdquo; &mdash;Richard Brautigan In Farmer, Jim Harrison tells the story of Joseph, a forty-three-year-old farmer-schoolteacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers one a tantalizing young student, the other his beautiful childhood friend he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or finally seek the wider, more worldly horizons he has avoided all his life. Farmer is a wondrous blend of insight, storytelling, and the author&rsquo;s uncanny ability to evoke the mysteries and beauties of the natural world. &ldquo;A beautiful novel&rdquo;, Farmer serves as the perfect introduction to Harrison&rsquo;s remarkable insight, storytelling, and evocation of the natural world (The Boston Globe). &ldquo;A quiet triumph . . . Yes, it is the old story again. Taking it and making it new, as Harrison has done, is a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes. But then so are all good novels.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post</div>

Farmer

<div>This collection of novellas featuring the titular Indian underscores Jim Harrison&rsquo;s place as one of America&rsquo;s most irrepressible writers. A New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of America&rsquo;s most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog, a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian, has earned cult status with readers in the decades since his first appearance. Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never-published one, into one volume&mdash;the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison&rsquo;s irresistible Everyman. In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior&rsquo;s cold waters; overindulges in food, drink, and women while just scraping by in Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Peninsula; wanders Los Angeles in search of an ersatz Native activist who stole his bearskin; adopts two Native children; and flees the authorities, then returns across the Canadian border aboard an Indian rock band&rsquo;s tour bus. The collection culminates with He Dog, never before published, which finds BD marginally employed and still looking for love (or sometimes just a few beers and a roll in the hay), as he goes on a road trip from Michigan to Montana and back, arriving home to the prospect of family stability and, perhaps, a chance at redemption.</div>

Brown Dog

<div>&ldquo;The longtime chronicler of Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Peninsula . . . gives eloquent expression to death and the grieving process.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as &ldquo;a master . . . who makes the ordinary extraordinary, the unnamable unforgettable,&rdquo; beloved author Jim Harrison returns with a masterpiece&mdash;a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig&rsquo;s Disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife, Cynthia, stories he has never shared with anyone as around him, his family struggles to lay him to rest with the same dignity with which he has lived. Over the course of the year following Donald&rsquo;s death, his daughter begins studying Chippewa ideas of death for clues about her father&rsquo;s religion, while Cynthia, bereft of the family she created to escape the malevolent influence of her own father, finds that redeeming the past is not a lost cause. Returning to Earth is a deeply moving book about origins and endings, making sense of loss, and living with honor for the dead. It is among the finest novels of Harrison&rsquo;s long, storied career, and confirms his standing as one of the most important American writers. &ldquo;A deeply felt meditation on life and death, nature and God, this is one of Harrison&rsquo;s finest works.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal</div>

Returning to Earth

<div>A &ldquo;feisty, passionate novel&rdquo; (Newsday) from a writer whose &ldquo;storytelling instincts are nearly flawless&rdquo; (The New York Times). The New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. Sundog is a powerful novel about the life and loves of a foreman named Robert Corvus Strang, who worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled in a fall down a three-hundred-foot dam. Now as he tries to regain use of his legs, he has a chance to reassess his life, and a blas&eacute; journalist who has heard of Strang&rsquo;s reputation in the field arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations. Strang, who has the violently heightened sensibilities of a man who has gone to the limits and back, recounts his monumental life moving from Michigan to Africa and the Amazon, including his several marriages and children, and dozens of lovers, Sundog is a story as true and gripping as real life, and ultimately as victorious.</div>

Sundog

<div>A New York Times Notable Book: A memoir of the writing life of Jim Harrison, from hardscrabble years to high-profile Hollywood friendships, &ldquo;as engaging as it is eccentric&rdquo; (The Washington Post Book World). In this &ldquo;sprawling, impressionistic memoir&rdquo;, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Jim Harrison chronicles his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with books to a young man making his way among fellow writers he deeply admires&mdash;including Peter Matthiessen, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Allen Ginsberg (The New York Times Book Review). 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&mdash;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&mdash;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. A true masterpiece of memoir from an author whose &ldquo;writing bears earthy whiffs of wild morels and morals and of booze and botany, as well as hints of William Faulkner, Louise Erdrich, Herman Melville, and Norman Maclean.&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle) &ldquo;This fine memoir is a worthy capstone to a fascinating career.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Off to the Side

<div>From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Great Leader and Legends of the Fall: a retired detective confronts the sins of man in rural Michigan. In The Great Leader, Mark Twain Award&ndash;winning author Jim Harrison introduced readers to the hard-drinking, nearly-retired Detective Sunderson. In this darkly comic follow-up, Sunderson takes stock of his past, while his outlaw neighbors bring new havoc to his doorstep. To flee his troubles, Detective Sunderson buys a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan&rsquo;s Upper Peninsula. But with neighbors like the Ames family, there is no peace to be found. Armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson&rsquo;s cleaning lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sunderson&rsquo;s advice on a crime novel he&rsquo;s writing which may not be fiction. In a story shot through with wit, bedlam, and Sunderson&rsquo;s contemplation of the seven deadly sins, The Big Seven is a superb reminder of why Jim Harrison is &ldquo;one of the finest writers of the past half-century&rdquo; (The Washington Times).</div>

The Big Seven

<div>An essay collection from &ldquo;the Henry Miller of food writing&rdquo; and New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked (The Wall Street Journal). Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food pieces for the first time, A Really Big Lunch &ldquo;brings him roaring to the page again in all his unapologetic immoderacy, with spicy bon mots and salty language augmented by family photographs&rdquo; (NPR). From the titular New Yorker article about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to essays on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison&rsquo;s aper&ccedil;us and delight in the pleasures of the senses. Between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison&rsquo;s life over the last three decades. Including articles that first appeared in Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, and more, as well as an introduction by Mario Batali, A Really Big Lunch offers &ldquo;sage and succulent essays&rdquo; for the literary gourmand (Shelf Awareness, starred review).</div>

A Really Big Lunch

<div>A collection of novellas from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&mdash;&ldquo;arguably America&rsquo;s foremost master of the novella . . . A force of nature on the page&rdquo; (The Washington Post). The Mark Twain Award&ndash;winning author of Legends of the Fall 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 fun with his own reputation in the title novella, about an aging writer in Montana who weathers the slings and arrows of literary success and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim and the unplanned litter of piglets that follows soon after. In Eggs, a Montana woman reminisces about collecting eggs at her grandparents&rsquo; country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so. And in The Case of the Howling Buddhas, retired Detective Sunderson&mdash;a recurring character from Harrison&rsquo;s New York Times bestseller The Great Leader and The Big Seven&mdash;is hired to investigate a bizarre cult that achieves satori by howling along with howler monkeys at the zoo. &ldquo;Still independent, fierce and feral,&rdquo; The Ancient Minstrel confirms Jim Harrison as one of the most cherished and important writers in modern America (David Gates, The New York Times).</div>

The Ancient Minstrel

<div>The celebrated author of Legends of the Fall delivers “three novellas as dark as they are exuberant” and linked by the lyrics of Patsy Cline (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The three stories in The Farmer’s Daughter are as different as they are unforgettable. Written in the voice of a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl in rural Montana, the title novella introduces an extraordinary character who must draw on her untapped strength and resilience when she encounters unexpected brutality. In another, Harrison’s beloved recurring character Brown Dog, still looking for love, escapes from Canada back to the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins. And finally, a retired werewolf, misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, attempts to lead a normal life but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, and outbursts of violence under the full moon. The Farmer’s Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, “Harrison shows he is still at the top of his game with these compressed gems. Taken together, they present another fine accomplishment in a storied career” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Readers with a fondness for Hemingway’s Michigan stories or Cormac McCarthy’s spare regional novels will also find these tales much to their liking. Highly recommended.” —Donna Bettencourt, Library Journal (starred review)</div>

The Farmer's Daughter

<div>Three novellas by the New York Times bestselling author, including the classic tale of brotherhood from the Montana plains through the horrors of WWI. Jim Harrison&rsquo;s critically acclaimed novella &ldquo;Legends of the Fall&rdquo;&mdash;which was made into the film of the same name&mdash;is an epic tale of three brothers fighting for justice in a world gone mad. Moving from the expansive landscape of early twentieth-century Montana to the blood-drenched battlefields of World War I Europe, Harrison explores the desperate actions of which men are capable when their lives or aspirations are threatened. Also including the novellas &ldquo;Revenge&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Man Who Gave Up His Name,&rdquo; Legends of the Fall confirms Jim Harrison&rsquo;s reputation as a writer who &ldquo;stands high among the writers of his generation. This book is rich, alive, and shatteringly visceral. A triumph&rdquo; (New Yorker). &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t begin to do justice to the nuances of character and honest complexities of plot in this work. The writing is precise and careful&mdash;and sings withal.&rdquo; &mdash;Raymond Carver, Washington Post Book World</div>

Legends of the Fall

<div>This &ldquo;sort of detective story&rdquo; by the New York Times bestselling novelist offers &ldquo;farcical, reflective, luscious, gritty [and] stylish entertainment&rdquo; (The New York Times). As a Boy Scout, Johnny Lundgren was given the nickname Warlock. Now, at forty-two years of age, Johnny has decided to take up that moniker again. It might be an odd name for an unemployed business executive living in Traverse City, Michigan. But perhaps it fits his new job working for an eccentric doctor as a personal trouble-shooter and private investigator. Warlock suddenly finds himself on a range of bizarre assignments&mdash;everything from battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan to investigating his employer&rsquo;s wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West. A comedy with one foot in the abyss, Warlock is &ldquo;a rich and sparkling novel&rdquo; by one of America&rsquo;s most critically acclaimed authors. &ldquo;Contemporary macho in a funhouse mirror . . . a hybrid born out of Faulkner&rsquo;s dark hero of Satoris and all the Buster Keaton comedy that we love.&rdquo;&mdash;Los Angeles Herald Examiner</div>

Warlock

<div>To Texans, barbecue is elemental. Succulent, savory, perfumed with smoke and spice, it transcends the term “comfort food.” It’s downright heavenly, and it’s also a staff of Texas life. Like a dust storm or a downpour, barbecue is a force of Texas nature, a stalwart tie to the state’s cultural and culinary history. Though the word is often shortened to “BBQ,” the tradition of barbecue stands Texas-tall. Photographer Wyatt McSpadden has spent some twenty years documenting barbecue—specifically, the authentic family-owned cafes that are small-town mainstays. Traveling tens of thousands of miles, McSpadden has crisscrossed the state to visit scores of barbecue purveyors, from fabled sites like Kreuz’s in Lockhart to remote spots like the Lazy H Smokehouse in Kirbyville. Color or black-and-white, wide angle or close up, his pictures convey the tradition and charm of barbecue. They allow the viewer to experience each place through all five senses. The shots of cooking meat and spiraling smoke make taste and smell almost tangible. McSpadden also captures the shabby appeal of the joints themselves, from huge, concrete-floored dining halls to tiny, un-air-conditioned shacks. Most of all, McSpadden conveys the primal physicality of barbecue—the heat of fire, the heft of meat, the slickness of juices—and also records ubiquitous touches such as ancient scarred carving blocks, torn screen doors and peeling linoleum, and toothpicks in a recycled pepper sauce jar.</div>

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Books By Jim Harrison (25 Books)