The Summer He Didn't Die
Published on 20. November 2018
292 pages
978-1-55584-650-3 (ISBN)
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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 Dieis 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
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 Dieis 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
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In addition to his eleven volumes of fiction, Jim Harrison has written seven collections of poetry, a book of essays, and the recent food book The Raw and the Cooked. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his work has been publishing in 22 languages. He was awarded the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association last year. His most recent books are the novel The Road Home and the collection of novellas The Beast God Forgot to Invent.
Residence: Montana and Arizona
Residence: Montana and Arizona
Content
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- The Summer He Didn't Die
- Republican Wives
- Tracking
- Author's Note on Tracking
