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Author:
Jim Harrison
Publisher:
Grove Press
Date:
September 13, 2022
New York Times-bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet's economy of style and a trencherman's appetites. A collection of pieces-from the near-classic to the never-published-that muse on everything from grouse hunting and ocean fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, as well as reporting on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open Atlantic, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life-and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death-on the US-Mexico border.
What The Reviewers Say
Harrison is almost the textbook example of a belletrist—someone who writes essays more for their aesthetic effect than anything else.
Spanning 45 years, this new bevy of essays and musings bursts with insight, adventure, and well-lived experiences, from literature to fishing and hunting to life in Michigan’s UP, Montana, Patagonia, and Arizona.
The boozy gourmand and superb writer recounts a long life of misbehavior, fishing, books, and wandering.
New and previously published essays, reviews, and travelogues by Harrison (1937–2016) come together in this rewarding trove of true-life tales and reflections.
