Jim Harrison

Para muchos lectores, Jim Harrison siempre será el autor de Leyendas de otoño. Publicado en 1978, se convirtió en un clásico de la narrativa norteamericana contemporánea mucho antes incluso de que Hollywood lanzara al estrellato definitivo a su autor. El libro está compuesto por tres novelas breves, Venganza, El hombre que perdió su nombre y Leyendas de otoño, que giran en torno a la insaciable triada del deseo, la venganza y lo salvaje. Un conjunto sobresaliente de la mejor literatura norteamericana de todos los tiempos. «Es imposible hacer justicia a los infinitos matices de los personajes y la honesta complejidad de las tramas de Leyendas de otoño. La escritura es precisa, cuidadosa, y se despliega como un todo». Raymond Carver, The Washington Post Book World

En 1970, Jim Harrison tiene la edad con la que murió Cristo y lleva encima la cruz del alcoholismo y la depresión. Está cansado dar clases de Literatura a chavales pijos de la Costa Este, así que lee a Lorca y a Rimbaud como si la vida se le fuera en cada verso. Hasta que un dia tiene un accidente en la montaña y se destroza la columna vertebral. Debera guardar cama y no esta claro que vuelva a caminar. Podria ser el final. O el principio. Harrison paso los meses siguientes escribiendo dia y noche. El resultado fue "Lobo", una novela arrolladora, furiosa y bellisima. En palabras del propio Harrison, "Lobo" es la historia de un hombre joven que ha hecho demasiadas imbecilidades en su vida y se retira a los bosques para encontrarse a si mismo y, sobre todo, para encontrar un lobo.

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 s

Au fil de ces trois novelas puissantes et sauvages, Jim Harrison compose une tragédie moderne où la violence, la rédemption et l'amour vibrent à chaque page. De Cochran, l'ancien militaire la

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Las vastas y salvajemente bellas llanuras de Nebraska son testigos de excepción de la saga de una familia, los Nothridge, a lo largo de más de un siglo de existencia. Cinco son las voces que, con una marcada individualidad, nos narran en primera persona sus vidas, sus anhelos, sus amores y sus miedos. Los hechos del pasado y el presente de los miembros del clan se van entretejiendo hasta formar un tapiz de la memoria humana, de una riqueza tan solo comparable a la de la tierra a la que estan indisolublemente unidos.

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.

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

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 s

Ésta es una gran novela sobre la vida y el amor, a pesar de la enfermedad y la muerte. Aquejado a los cuarenta y cinco años de una esclerosis degenerativa que le conduce a la muerte, Donald se da cuenta de que, cuando no esté, no quedará nadie vivo para transmitir la historia de su familia a sus hijos. Decide entonces evocar sus recuerdos a su mujer, quien los va transcribiendo. Este descendiente de finlandeses y de los chippewa, nativos norteamericanos, tuvo que abrirse camino en la Upper Peninsula de Michigan, un medio hostil para los trabajadores pobres como él. Sin embargo, ha amado intensamente su mundo y ha concebido una religión personal basada en las creencias chippewa y apegada a la naturaleza. Donald mantiene su actitud vital y afirmativa a pesar del incesante deterioro, y su último acto consiste en un gesto libre: elegir el modo, el lugar y el momento de su muerte. «Harrison es uno de los mejores escritores norteamericanos del último medio siglo. Regreso a la tierra es un libro importante de un gran escritor que lo ha escrito con sus capacidades al máximo. No se lo pierda» The Washington Times Regreso a la tierra es una de las mejores novelas de la larga trayectoria de Harrison, y lo confirma como uno de los escritores en activo más importantes de Estados Unidos.

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.

À quelques jours de la retraite, après une longue carrière dans la police du Michigan, Simon Sunderson s'accroche à une dernière enquête sur une secte hédoniste dont le gourou se fait appeler Gra

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.

Best-selling and beloved 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 his newest and most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel that follows one mans hunt for an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader.Detective Sunderson is on the verge of retirement when he begins to investigate a hedonistic cult, which has set up camp near his home in Michigans Upper Peninsula. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but as Sunderson and his unlikely 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 that is filled with professional and criminal border-crossers, then on to Nebraska where the Great Leaders most recent recruits have gathered to glorify his questionable religion. But Sundersons demons are also in pursuit of him.Rich with character and incredibly funny, Jim Harrisons The Great Leader is at once a gripping excursion through Americas landscapes and the poignant story of a man grappling with age, lost love, and his own darker nature.

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.

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