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Jim Harrison is the author of Blue Moon in Kentucky (2025), Théorie et pratique des rivières (2025), Legendy o vášni (2023), Early Poems (2023), The Search for the Genuine (2022).

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Blue Moon in Kentucky

release date: Sep 12, 2025

Théorie et pratique des rivières

release date: Sep 12, 2025

Legendy o vášni

release date: Jan 01, 2023

Early Poems

release date: Jan 01, 2023
Early Poems
"A collection of poems by Jim Harrison, edited by Joseph Bednarik"--

The Search for the Genuine

release date: Sep 06, 2022
The Search for the Genuine
The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison''s essays and journalism—some never before published New York Times–bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was a writer with a poet’s economy of style and a trencherman’s appetites. Praised as a “national treasure” (Chicago Tribune) and published in twenty-seven languages, he was one of this country’s most beloved and critically acclaimed authors. Best known for his poetry and fiction such as Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth, Harrison was also a prolific nonfiction writer, with columns running in Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and work in Outside, Field & Stream, and others. The first collection of Harrison’s general nonfiction in thirty years, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive volume of essays and journalism—from the near-classic to the never-published. With his trademark ribald humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, The Search for the Genuine pays tribute to writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and examines the distance between literary reputation and the work itself; he attains something like satori in the field hunting grouse; he reports on Yellowstone for the park’s hundredth anniversary, when he was merely a tourist to the part of Montana he would eventually call home; he takes to the open sea in pursuit of roosterfish, marlin, tarpon, and, once, to observe a scientific mission tagging sharks; he delivers a heartbreaking essay on life—and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more dangerous gaps, death—on the US-Mexico border. Always he comes back to the spirit and to connection with the natural world and the people who sustained him; throughout the book his feeling for the American landscape rings out. Lovingly introduced by acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Luis Alberto Urrea, The Search for the Genuine is a feast that captures a lifetime of reading, writing, and living to the fullest, from a true “American original” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Vento di passioni

release date: Apr 20, 2022
Vento di passioni
I tre racconti che compongono Vento di passioni sono il frutto maturo con cui Jim Harrison sa riempire le pagine di personaggi memorabili che evocano sentimenti forti, tragedie guardate con sguardo fermo, paradossi dribblati da esistenze messe alla prova da un destino misterioso e beffardo. Nel primo dei racconti, Leggende d’autunno, è la selvaggia e vigorosa esistenza di Tristan e dei suoi fratelli – rampolli di una vecchia famiglia inglese trapiantata in un ranch americano – a fare da contrappunto a un’epoca che pare la sintesi di un secolo. Harrison sa congiungere il più isolato dei mondi – foreste immense e cordigliere sferzate da gelidi inverni – agli orizzonti sconvolti di un mondo dove la storia umana si avviluppa in mille tragici intrecci. Nell’incapacità di Tristan ad accettare limiti che non siano il profilo delle sue montagne e l’orizzonte dei mari che ha solcato c’è la fierezza di esistere dove si teme la commozione. Non la morte. Soffia tutt’altro vento, pungente e vivificante, nelle pagine de L’uomo che rinunciò al suo nome. Chi l’ha detto che soffrire è l’inizio del morire? Per Nordstrom – quarantenne appena separato, una carriera di successo alle spalle – soffrire è l’esatto contrario. È la trafittura che annuncia la guarigione da una vita «normale in modo disgustoso». È l’annuncio di un cambiamento che l’autore sa cogliere, con incomparabile ironia e leggiadra saggezza, nel suo sbocciare. Nell’ultimo racconto, Vendetta, incombe la fatalità dell’amore proibito di un ex pilota americano in un Messico pieno di sole e di sangue. Sfida perseguita con fierezza e pagata con consapevole strazio. La narrazione, come un bisturi preciso e implacabile, taglia e incide e – dopo l’iniziale, febbrile svolgersi – trova l’armonia di una quiete solenne, dove gli opposti finalmente si ricongiungono.

Jim Harrison: Complete Poems

release date: Dec 20, 2021
Jim Harrison: Complete Poems
Starred Review from Booklist: "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet''s work... [a] landmark collection." From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: "Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries. ''Such a powerful wounded poet—wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat . . . and he did have to sing,'' said Jorie Graham." Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is the definitive collection from one of America’s iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of previously unpublished "Last Poems." Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem “correspondence” with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a joyous conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Weaving throughout these 1000 pages are Harrison’s legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention to the life you are actually living. Jim Harrison: Complete Poems confirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or as Publishers Weeklycalled him, “an untrammeled renegade genius... a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.” NOTE:Jim Harrison: Complete Poems also appears as a three-volume box set. Print run limited to 750 copies. Each volume is introduced by a different writer: Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman. The box set retails for $85 and ISBN is 9781556596414.

The Complete Poems: Three Volume Boxed Set

release date: Nov 23, 2021

Un sacré gueuleton

release date: Jan 08, 2020

BrainFishing

release date: Aug 15, 2018
BrainFishing
BrainFishing is the “missing link”, the hands-on, practical guide for professionals looking to forge better agreements and build stronger relationships in difficult and challenging situations. It is the one, slim book that will complete your professional bookshelf. Designed for anyone who manages, sells, coaches, negotiates, resolves conflict or needs to influence other people, BrainFishing will help you understand and apply questioning skills in new, effective, and creative ways. Filled with examples, stories and exercises to help you put the skills and tools to work immediately, BrainFishing will help change your relationships from the ground up. And there’s the neuroscience behind it all, too!

The Coca-Cola Art of Jim Harrison

release date: Jan 31, 2017
The Coca-Cola Art of Jim Harrison
The story of how a summer job spawned a long and rewarding career as an artist Coca-Cola is a true American original and one of the world''s most recognized and popular American products. In The Coca-Cola Art of Jim Harrison, the artist traces his lifelong love affair with the Coca-Cola trademark that began during his childhood in rural South Carolina. Harrison enjoyed drinking the sweet and effervescent beverage, but he also was attracted to the Coca-Cola trademark that was blazoned on buildings and signs in his home town. After years of marveling at the work of local sign painter J. J. Cornforth, Harrison approached the seventy-year-old for a summer job. During several summers Cornforth taught Harrison the craft. When the young artist climbed atop the scaffold in the summer of 1952 to paint his first Coca-Cola sign, little did he know that he was launching a career as one of America''s foremost landscape artists. In 1975 Harrison created a painting of a country store that featured a fading Coca-Cola sign he and Cornforth had painted twenty years earlier. The painting, titled "Disappearing America," was offered as one of the first limited-edition Coca-Cola collector prints for $40 by Frame House Gallery. All 1,500 copies sold out quickly, propelling him into the national spotlight through the publisher''s network of 600 dealers. Harrison soon became the undisputed leader in rural Americana art, with this and many of his other prints appreciating up to 3,000 percent of their original value. Since entering into a licensee relationship with the Coca-Cola Company in 1995, Harrison has continued developing limited-edition prints, including his popular annual Coca-Cola calendar. Not surprisingly, Harrison has become an avid collector of old Coca-Cola signs. His studio is lined with a vast array of this collection, which serves as inspiration for new works of art.

Dead Man's Float

release date: Aug 22, 2016
Dead Man's Float
"Harrison''s poems succeed on the basis of an open heart and a still-ravenous appetite for life."—The Texas Observer The title Dead Man''s Float is inspired by a technique used by swimmers to conserve energy when exhausted, to rest up for the long swim to shore. In his fourteenth volume of poetry, Jim Harrison presents keen awareness of physical pains, delights in the natural world, and reflects on humanity''s tentative place in a universe filled with ninety billion galaxies. By turns mournful and celebratory, these fearless and exuberant poems accomplish what Harrison''s poems always do: wake us up to the possibilities of being fully alive. "Forthright and unaffected, even brash, Harrison always scoops us straight into the world whether writing fiction or nonfiction. This new collection [Dead Man''s Float] takes its cue from a technique swimmers use to conserve energy in deep water, and Harrison goes in deep, acknowledging our frailness even as he seamlessly connects with a world that moves from water to air to the sky beyond."—Library Journal “Harrison pours himself into everything he writes… in poems, you do meet Harrison head-on. As he navigates his seventies, he continues to marvel with succinct awe and earthy lyricism over the wonders of birds, dogs, and stars as he pays haunting homage to his dead and contends with age’s assaults. The sagely mischievous poet of the North Woods and the Arizona desert laughs at himself as he tries to relax by imagining that he’s doing the dead man’s float only to sink into troubling memories…Bracingly candid, gracefully elegiac, tough, and passionate, Harrison travels the deep river of the spirit, from the wailing precincts of a hospital to a “green glade of soft marsh grass near a pool in a creek” to the moon-bright sea.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist "Harrison doesn''t write like anyone else, relying entirely on the toughness of his vision and intensity of feeling."—Publishers Weekly Warbler This year we have two gorgeous yellow warblers nesting in the honeysuckle bush. The other day I stuck my head in the bush. The nestlings weigh one twentieth of an ounce, about the size of a honeybee. We stared at each other, startled by our existence. In a month or so, when they reach the size of bumblebees they''ll fly to Costa Rica without a map. Jim Harrison, one of America''s most versatile and celebrated writers, is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—including Legends of the Fall, the acclaimed trilogy of novellas. With a fondness for open space and anonymous thickets, he divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.

Farmer

release date: May 03, 2016
Farmer
"A sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life." —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''s uncanny ability to evoke the mysteries and beauties of the natural world. "A beautiful novel", Farmer serves as the perfect introduction to Harrison''s remarkable insight, storytelling, and evocation of the natural world ( The Boston Globe). "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." — The Washington Post

Just Before Dark

release date: May 03, 2016
Just Before Dark
Twenty-five years of essays from one of America''s most prolific and acclaimed writers, the New York Times–bestselling author of Legends of the Fall. The bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—including Dalva and Returning to Earth—Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In Just Before Dark, Harrison''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—from ice fishing to bar pool, nouvelle cuisine and night walks—with keen insight and great humanity. It is an exceptional reminder of why Harrison was one of our most cherished and important writers. "One of the most interesting and entertaining bodies of work by any writer of his generation." —Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune

Application Development for IBM CICS Web Services

release date: Jan 27, 2015
Application Development for IBM CICS Web Services
This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on developing Web service applications in IBM CICS®. It takes the broad view of developing and modernizing CICS applications for XML, Web services, SOAP, and SOA support, and lays out a reference architecture for developing these kinds of applications. We start by discussing Web services in general, then review how CICS implements Web services. We offer an overview of different development approaches: bottom-up, top-down, and meet-in-the-middle. We then look at how you would go about exposing a CICS application as a Web service provider, again looking at the different approaches. The book then steps through the process of creating a CICS Web service requester. We follow this by looking at CICS application aggregation (including 3270 applications) with IBM Rational® Application Developer for IBM System z® and how to implement CICS Web Services using CICS Cloud technology. The first part is concluded with hints and tips to help you when implementing this technology. Part two of this publication provides performance figures for a basic Web service. We investigate some common variables and examine their effects on the performance of CICS as both a requester and provider of Web services.

The Big Seven

release date: Jan 01, 2015
The Big Seven
The Big Seven sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan. 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 lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sunderson''s advice on a crime novel he''s writing which may not be fiction. Sunderson must struggle with the evil within himself and the far greater, more expansive evil of his neighbor.

Legends of the Fall

release date: Dec 20, 2013
Legends of the Fall
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''s critically acclaimed novella "Legends of the Fall"—which was made into the film of the same name—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 "Revenge" and "The Man Who Gave Up His Name," Legends of the Fall confirms Jim Harrison''s reputation as a writer who "stands high among the writers of his generation. This book is rich, alive, and shatteringly visceral. A triumph" ( New Yorker). "I can''t begin to do justice to the nuances of character and honest complexities of plot in this work. The writing is precise and careful—and sings withal." —Raymond Carver, Washington Post Book World

Brown Dog

release date: Dec 03, 2013
Brown Dog
This collection of novellas featuring the titular Indian underscores Jim Harrison''s place as one of America''s most irrepressible writers. A New York Times–bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of America''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—the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison''s irresistible Everyman. In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior''s cold waters; overindulges in food, drink, and women while just scraping by in Michigan''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''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.

The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home

release date: Feb 19, 2013
The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home
With its fanlike evergreen fronds, soft trunk, and strong root system, the palmetto is a wind-adapted palm that can bend with strong sea breezes without breaking or being uprooted. Emblematic of survival against opposition, the palmetto tree has captured the imaginations of South Carolinians for generations, appearing on the state seal since the American Revolution and on the state flag since 1861. The palmetto was named South Carolina''s official state tree by Governor Burnet R. Maybank in 1939, and in 1974 Governor John C. West commissioned acclaimed South Carolina artist Jim Harrison to paint the official palmetto tree portrait for the State of South Carolina, an image that adorns the State House to this day. The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home showcases the timeless, natural beauty of the state tree in marshland and coastal landscapes in the popular Harrison style. Appearing on glassware, stationery, jewelry, and many other decorative and functional objects, the palmetto tree is an omnipresent symbol in South Carolina culture. For Harrison, the palmetto remains foremost an icon of the wondrous Carolina coastal habitats. Sweeping images of the coast have been part of Harrison''s art since the beginning of his career, and he continues to illustrate his love of the South Carolina coast by capturing the beauty of the state tree amid the many stunning and enchanting scenes included here. The Palmetto and Its South Carolina Home also explores the historical background of the tree and its many ties to South Carolina''s heritage as a symbol of strength and beauty worthy of this artistic celebration.

In Search of Small Gods

release date: Dec 28, 2012
In Search of Small Gods
Harrison, one of America''s most celebrated writers, is considered "a renegade genius" for his poetry.

The Great Leader

release date: Oct 04, 2011
The Great Leader
"A wild ride . . . [and] a thoroughly enjoyable tale of religion, sex and money . . . this is not your grandfather''s detective novel." —Tim McNulty, The Seattle Times New York Times–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 "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. "Jim Harrison is unsurpassed at chronicling man''s relationship with wilderness . . . The Great Leader is hugely enjoyable." —Tom Bissell, Outside Magazine

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator's Companion

release date: Feb 10, 2010
Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator's Companion
Get your Web security, network perimeter security, and application layer security gateway up and running smoothly. This indispensible, single-volume reference details the features and capabilities of Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG). You''ll gain the real-world insights, implementation and configuration best practices, and management practices you need for on-the-job results. Discover how to: Implement TMG integrated security features Analyze your Web and perimeter security requirements and infrastructure Plan, install, and configure TMG Implement network intrusion prevention, proxy, caching, filtering Configure security for the Web, Microsoft Exchange Server, and SharePoint Products and Technologies Implement remote access and site-to-site VPNs Select and configure clients Monitor and troubleshoot protected systems with Network Monitor 3 and other tools Use scripting to configure systems and automate administration Plus, get a fully searchable eBook on the companion CD For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

Les jeux de la nuit

release date: Jan 01, 2010

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

release date: Oct 02, 2008
The Woman Lit by Fireflies
Three novellas by the author of Legends of the Fall. "A brilliant tour de force . . . Jim Harrison at his peak: comic, erotic, and insightful" ( San Francisco Chronicle). Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren''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—a hard-living, hard-writing hero of American letters whose novellas comprise a sweeping tribute to the nation''s heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it. "Funny, wild, sexy, and bizarre . . . Along with Richard Ford . . . Harrison has cornered the market in the tough-but-tender style that characterized Hemingway''s early work." —Nick Hornby

Off to the Side

release date: Dec 01, 2007
Off to the Side
A New York Times Notable Book: A memoir of the writing life of Jim Harrison, from hardscrabble years to high-profile Hollywood friendships, " as engaging as it is eccentric" ( The Washington Post Book World). In this "sprawling, impressionistic memoir", 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—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—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. A true masterpiece of memoir from an author whose "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." ( San Francisco Chronicle) "This fine memoir is a worthy capstone to a fascinating career." — Publishers Weekly

The Beast God Forgot to Invent

release date: Dec 01, 2007
The Beast God Forgot to Invent
An unforgettable collection of novellas from the author of Legends of the Fall explores the line between civilization and the "wild men." 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. "Harrison''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." — Publishers Weekly

The Summer He Didn't Die

release date: Dec 01, 2007
The Summer He Didn't Die
Three classic novellas from "one of our master chroniclers of human hungers, flaws, and frustrations." ( The Kansas City Star). Jim Harrison''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''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''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''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''t Die is a resonant, warm, and joyful ode to our journey on this earth. "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." — Los Angeles Times

Letters to Yesenin

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Letters to Yesenin
Sergei Yesenin was a Russian poet who, in 1925, hanged himself after writing his farewell poem in blood. Jim Harrison''s "correspondence" with Yesenin is an American masterwork. In the early 1970s, Harrison was living in poverty on a hard-scrabble farm, suffering from depression and suicidal urges. He began to write daily prose-poem letters to Yesenin, confiding to his unlikely friend about sex, drunkenness, family, politics - about living for another day. Although "the rope" remained ever present, Harrison listened to his poems: "My year-old daughter''s red robe hangs from the doorknob shouting Stop."

Aventures d'un gourmand vagabond

release date: Jan 01, 2007
Aventures d'un gourmand vagabond
Voici la gargantuesque leçon de savoir-vivre dédiée à tous les affamés par Jim Harrison. Vous voulez connaître la différence entre le Cuit et le Cru ? Vous initier à l''art si particulier de dévorer les livres et les femmes ? Suivre le régime suicide aux dix milles calories, composé de choucroute garnie, de cassoulet, de bollito misto, de chair de crabe et de risotto, arrosé d''un succulent Salice Salentino ? Ou arpenter les quatre coins du globe dans les meilleurs restaurants et les plus fins bistrots ? La recette tient en cinq lettres : excès. Quant au chef ? Un ogre des temps modernes chez qui les levers de coude et autres coups de fourchette ont toujours eu des airs de quête. Celle de l''authenticité et d''une vie pleinement vécue.

L'été où il faillit mourir

release date: Jan 01, 2006
L'été où il faillit mourir
Dans ce recueil réunissant trois novellas, Jim Harrison se présente en toute virtuosité dans des registres qu''on aurait pu croire incompatibles. La novella qui donne son titre au livre, narre les dernières tribulations de Chien Brun, métis indien de la Péninsule Nord du Michigan. Les aventures de ce personnage sont racontées dans un délectable mélange de comédie et de tragédie soft. Epouses républicaines constitue un véritable tour de force. Jim Harrison met en scène trois femmes mariées, riches, républicaines, amies depuis toujours. Les voix de ces trois femmes sont crédibles, individualisées, réelles. On découvre un Jim ventriloquant trois épouses républicaines grand chic grand genre, leur inventant des voix effarées, passionnées, des larmes émouvantes ou ridicules, des répliques cinglantes ou naïves. Quant à la troisième novella du recueil, intitulée Traces, c''est une belle variation sur l''autobiographie de l''auteur, rédigée à la troisième personne, comme si Jim Harrison incarnait un personnage de roman, mais avec une écriture poétique transcendant le sujet et une liberté de ton qui nous font entrer de plain-pied dans la réalité de l''Amérique des années cinquante et soixante.
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