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From the author of Legends of the Fall and Dalva comes an epic American saga - 'Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him' Sunday Times

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One of America's leading novelists and poets, "Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him" (The Sunday Times).

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In three novellas, Jim Harrison takes us on a journey through the American heart. In Julip a young woman tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail. The Seven-Ounce Man continues the adventures of Brown Dog. The Beige Dolorosa is about an academic recovering from a sexual-harassment scandal.

Newly divorced, sixty-someting Cliff is off on a road trip across America. His adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student and into the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer.

In his most original work to date, Jim Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, expertly crafted novel following one mans hunt for an elusive cult leader: The Great Leader. On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson begins investigating a hedonistic cult that 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 sixteen-year-old sideki...

Celebrated author Jim Harrison, whose robust, tender, and deeply felt books have made their mark on the American literary landscape, here delivers a collection of three novellas infused with all the wisdom and generous spirit that have made him a master writer. In the title novella, The Summer He Didnt Die, Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren on meager resources, it helps that his charms are irresisti...

The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more than a father and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to adulthood, enlightened and enlivened at various poin...

In this sequel to Harrisons True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrigs disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared. As old crimes, dreams, wounds, and sacred moments are revived for the members of Donalds family, each is affected in different and profound ways. Each will describe ...

Rapturously received by critics and enthusiastically embraced by readers, The Great Leader is an enthralling, blackly comic take on the detective story that follows a retired detective in hilarious and bold pursuit of a sinister cult leader. Detective Sunderson is on the verge of retirement when he begins to investigate a hedonistic cult that has set up camp near his home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. At first, the self-declared Great Leader ...

Now in paperback, an all in one collection of five previously published works and one new one--the complete novellas featuring the beloved recurring character Brown Dog from New York Times best-selling author Jim Harrison.

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A portrait of two men confronting aging, inconvenient loves, and the encroachment of urbanity on nature, shot through with Harrison's trademark wit and insight into the human condition. .

THE ROAD HOME lies in the shadows of Manifest Destiny and Wounded Knee, it is etched into the landscape of an old man's memory and into the stubborn dreams of a young man's heart. In Jim Harrison's latest masterpiece, five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. They strive to understand their fates, reconcile with demons of the past, love with honor, live in accordance...

Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was the New York Times-bestselling author of nine volumes of novellas, twelve novels, fourteen collections of poetry, a book of children's literature, a memoir and two collections of non-fiction. His books include Legends of the Fall, Dalva and Returning to Earth. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Spirit of the Wes...

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