Jim Harrison

El Donald és un indi chippewa d'ascencència finesa de poc més de quaranta anys que té una malaltia terminal. A mesura que la seva salut empitjora, s'adona que quan ell ja no hi sigui, ningú serà capa

A la suite de son enquête sur la secte du Grand maître, l'inspecteur Sunderson, désormais à la retraite et séparé de sa femme, n'aspire qu'à se mettre au vert dans un bungalow de pêche du Nord Michig

Jim Harrison has been called a writer with immortality in him by Londons Sunday Times and The New York Times Book Review has written that [his] storytelling instincts are nearly flawless. Harrisons last novel, Returning to Earth, was one of his most praised in years, hailed by The Plain Dealer as an artistic achievement worthy of Faulkner. The English Major is a wryly funny novel that sparkles with the generous humanity of his vision.It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isnt. 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 exwife, on a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff s adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high schoolteacher days twenty-some years before, to a snake farm in Arizona owned by an old classmate; and to the highoctane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer who has just bought an apartment over the Presidio in San Francisco.The English Major is the map of a mans journey intoand out ofhimself, and it is vintage Harrisonreflective, big-picture American, and replete with wicked wit.

Now in paperback, Jim Harrisons Returning to Earth has been universally praised, and is one of his most popular recent books. In Returning to Earth, Harrison has delivered a masterpiecea tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and how it is sometimes possible to find redemption in unlikely places.Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, married to a white woman who renounced the wealth she was raised with, and father to two grown children. As Returning to Earth opens he is slowly dying of Lou Gehrigs disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one alive 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 anyoneas around him, his family struggles with how to lay him to rest with the same dignity with which he has always lived.Over the course of the year following Donalds death, his loved ones struggle with how to let him go. His daughter begins studying Chippewa ideas of death for clues about her fathers religion, and her mother is at loose ends for how to protect or guide her. Bereft of the family she created to escape the malevolent influence of her own father, Cynthia, along with her brother, David, an eccentric whose life mission is to prevent Mexican bordercrossers from dying in transit, find, all these years later, that redeeming the past is not a lost cause.Returning to Earth is a deeply moving book about origins and endings, how to make sense of loss, and how to live with honor for the dead. It is among the finest novels of Harrisons long, storied career, and confirms his standing as one of the most important American writers now working.

The late Jim Harrison was one of the true greats when it came to writing about food. He combined an attention to detail with a glorious prose style and a massive appetite... A must read. - ObserverNew York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of Americas most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as the poet laureate of appetite (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time - and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.Jim Harrisons legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, the Kermit Lynch Newsletter and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrisons pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrisons life over the last fifteen years. A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of Americas most beloved and critically acclaimed writers. The classic Legends of the Fall is Harrison at his most memorable: a striking collection of novellas written with exceptional brilliance and a ferocious love of life.The title novella, Legends of the Fall - which was made into the film of the same name - is an epic, moving tale of three brothers fighting for justice in a world gone mad. Moving from the raw landscape of early twentieth-century Montana to the blood-drenched European battlefields of World War I and back again to Montana, Harrisons powerful story explores the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals are threatened, painting an unforgettable portrait of the twentieth-century man.Also including the novellas Revenge and The Man Who Gave Up His Name,Legends of the Fall confirms Jim Harrisons reputation as one of the finest American voices of his generation.

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, and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.One of Harrisons most ambitious novels, Dalva explores an extraordinary family through the strong, engaging voice of an unforgettable woman, confirming Harrison as one of Americas most memorable writers.

A classic collection full of salty wisdom, from the Henry Miller of food writing (Wall Street Journal) and author of Legends of the Fall.Food is an extreme sport for Jim Harrison. As a seven-month old baby he was found chewing the leather binding of the family Bible with its slightly beefy flavour; from then on, when he didnt have his nose in a book he could be found eating - everything. The Raw and the Cooked collects his musings on meat, marinades and a million other things besides, from the man who likes to wrestle his dinner to the ground then wash it down with a really good 1967 Latour.

"La ferme ne me possédait plus, et c'est ainsi que j'ai quitté notre verte vallée où j'avais passé tant d'années. Pour des raisons sentimentales je n'ai pas assisté à la vente aux enchères et je suis

The late Jim Harrison was one of the true greats when it came to writing about food He combined an attention to detail with a glorious prose style and a massive appetite A must read Observer New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America s most beloved writers a muscular brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom He also wrote some of the best essays on food around earning praise as the poet laureate of appetite Dallas Morning News A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time and taps into his larger than life appetite with wit and verve Jim Harrison s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty seven courses to pieces from Brick Playboy the Kermit Lynch Newsletter and more on the relationship between hunter and prey or the obscure language of wine reviews A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison s pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison s life over the last fifteen years A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite

Este volumen reúne una selección poderosa de novelas, relatos y textos inéditos de Jim Harrison, el legendario escritor estadounidense conocido por su vínculo con la naturaleza, la introspección y la crudeza emocional. Pero aqui, Harrison da un giro inesperado: explora la voz femenina como vehiculo de transformacion literaria y personal.Mi capacidad para escribir como mujer me salvo de morir por exceso de drogas y alcohol. Jim Harrison

Siamo negli anni Cinquanta, in un Michigan rurale fatto di piccole e medie proprietà agricole. Joseph, un contadino di discendenza svedese, ha passato la vita tra i campi e l'insegnamento, perché un

Nel romanzo, narrato a piu voci, prende corpo la saga di una famiglia e di un'epoca. La prima voce narrante e quella del bisnonno di Dalva, un patriarca che ha del sangue Sioux nelle vene e un temperamento romantico e artistico, anche se cio non gli ha impedito di accumulare terre e bestiame in quantita. Il secondo io narrante e Nelse, il figlio illegittimo di Dalva che conduce un'esistenza da nomade vivendo sotto una tenda. Ma il richiamo di casa lo induce a tornare inm Nebraska dove ancora vivono sua madre e sua nonna, Naomi, l'unica che da quella terra non si e mai staccata. Solo Dalva abbandona la strada di casa mettendosi alla ricerca del suo giovane amante, Duane, che morira suicida.

Due uomini e una donna, fra i tanti diseredati che si incontrano, uniscono le loro esistenze brade in un'avventura temeraria: far saltare con la dinamite una diga in costruzione che minaccia lo splen

Trois nouvelles mettant en scène Sarah, adolescente de 15 ans, cherchant à se venger de l'agression dont elle a été victime, Chien Brun en quête de l'âme soeur, et un loup-garou tentant de mener une vie normale malgré ses accès de violence les soirs de pleine lune.

Jim Harrison is one of our most renowned and popular authors, and his last novel, The Great Leader, was one of the most successful in a decorated career: It appeared on the New York Times extended bestseller list, and was a national bestseller with rapturous reviews. His darkly comic follow-up, 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 Michigans Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in than he realizes that 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 Sundersons cleaning lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sundersons advice on a crime novel hes writing which may not be fiction. Sunderson must struggle with the evil within himself and the greater, more expansive evil of his neighbor.In a story shot through with wit, bedlam, and Sundersons attempts to enumerate and master the seven deadly sins, The Big Seven is a superb reminder of why Jim Harrison is one of Americas most irrepressible writers.