"Jim Harrison At the Wallace Stegner Center" (2005)
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The English Major: A Novel
- ASIN: 0802144144
- ISBN: 0802144144
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn’t.” 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... [Read More]
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The River Swimmer: Novellas
- ASIN: 0802120733
- ISBN: 9780802120731
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
Jim Harrison is one of America’s most beloved and critically-acclaimed authors—on a par with American literary greats like Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. His latest collection of novellas, The River Swimmer, is Harrison at his most memorable: a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in... [Read More]
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Brown Dog: Novellas
- ASIN: 0802122868
- ISBN: 0802122868
- Brand: Grove Press
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
What Harrison does on every page of Brown Dog is have fun . . . not simply for the sake of delight but because he believes delight is as close to sublimity as humans can get. . . . The great project of life, he reminds us, is to sit still long enough to appreciate it.” Anthony Doerr, The New York Times Book ReviewBrown Dog is . . . an every... [Read More]
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The Farmer's Daughter: Novellas
- ASIN: 0802145027
- ISBN: 0802145027
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
A collection of three novellas, The Farmer's Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The English Major.
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Julip: A Novel
- ASIN: 0802143768
- ISBN: 0802143768
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
In three novellas, Jim Harrison takes us on an American journey as he leads us through the wondrous landscape of the human heart. "Julip" follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail—he shot three of her former lovers "below the belt." "The Seven-Ounce Man" continues the picaresque adventures... [Read More]
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The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand
- ASIN: 080213937X
- ISBN: 080213937X
- Brand: Brand: Grove Press
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison i... [Read More]
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In Search of Small Gods
- ASIN: 1556593198
- ISBN: 9781556593192
- Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
"Funny and tender beneath a wry and gruff seen-it-all veneer, Harrison contemplates death, discerns divinity in every stone and leaf, and nobility in ordinary lives, and laughs at our attempts to separate ourselves from the rest of nature."—Booklist"His poems succeed on the basis of an open heart and a still-ravenous appetite for life."—The Tex... [Read More]
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Dead Man's Float
- ASIN: 1556594453
- ISBN: 1556594453
- Brand: Copper Canyon Pr
- Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
Jim Harrison's final book of poems, published only a few months before his death[Jim Harrison] is still close to the source Dead Man's Float is, as its title would suggest, a flinty and psalmist look at mortality and wonder.”Los Angeles Times”Mr. Harrison’s novels and poems over the last two decades have been increasingly preoccupied wit... [Read More]
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The Ancient Minstrel: Novellas
- ASIN: 0802124569
- ISBN: 0802124569
- Brand: Grove Pr
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
“Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times on The River SwimmerNew 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, Harri... [Read More]
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Off to the Side: A Memoir
- ASIN: 0802140300
- ISBN: 0802140300
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
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 b... [Read More]
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Dalva (Contemporary Classics (Washington Square Press))
- ASIN: 0671740679
- ISBN: 9780671740672
- Brand: Washington Square Press
- Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
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 t... [Read More]
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The Beast God Forgot to Invent: Novellas
- ASIN: 0802138365
- ISBN: 0802138365
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
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 tr... [Read More]
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Theatrical)
- ASIN: B019G7X7QG
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Pittsburgh Steelers NFL Helmet Shadowbox w/ James Harrison card
- ASIN: B01LTCURL4
- Brand: Riddell
- Manufacturer: Riddell
Introducing mini helmet shadowbox with card. Each one features an officially licensed Riddell pocket size helmet with official football card. Football card may be different but it will be the same player as listed! Acrylic shadowbox measures 3"x4"x2". Great unique gift idea for football fan or collector! Collect them all! Look for sp... [Read More]
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Legends of the Fall
- ASIN: B00HEPESCU
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
[Legends of the Fall] may well be the best set of novellas to appear in this country during the last quarter century.” Robert Houston, New York Times Book ReviewNew York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of America’s most beloved and critically acclaimed writers. Now available in eBook for the first time, the classic Legends of t... [Read More]
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Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition (P.S.)
- ASIN: 0061787426
- ISBN: 9780061787423
- Brand: Harper Perennial
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine—the first novel by bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich—is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mi... [Read More]
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The Woman Lit by Fireflies
- ASIN: 080214375X
- ISBN: 080214375X
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
Jim Harrison has garnered critical acclaim for masterpieces such as Legends of the Fall, The Beast God Forgot to Invent, and, most recently, Returning to Earth. Now, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, one of his best-loved books, is available as a Grove paperback.Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that a... [Read More]
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The Widow Nash: A Novel
- ASIN: 1619029286
- ISBN: 1619029286
- Brand: COUNTERPOINT
- Manufacturer: Counterpoint
Winner of the 2017 Reading the West AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "What keeps you reading is not just the quality of the writing, which is just absolutely wonderful, but also to find out: Is [Dulcy] going to [remake herself]? Can this be successful? Or is she going to be found out?" ―Nancy Pearl, Morning Edition, NPR Dulcy Rem... [Read More]
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True North
- ASIN: 0802142060
- ISBN: 0802142060
- Brand: Harrison, Jim
- Manufacturer: Grove Press
An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, and his own father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison'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 ... [Read More]
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Sundog
- ASIN: 0525242368
- ISBN: 0525242368
- Brand: Brand: E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence
- Manufacturer: E. P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence
Bound in publisher's original green quarter cloth with green paper board.The story of an American foreman, Robert Corvus Strang, as told to Jim Harrison.
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