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Praise for Jim Harrison

Praise for Jim Harrison

“[Harrison’s] books glisten with love of the world, and are as grounded as Thoreau’s in the particulars of American place—its rivers and thickets, its highways and taverns. Bawdily and with unrelenting gusto, Harrison’s forty years of writing explores what constitutes a good life, both aesthetically and morally, on this planet.”

—New York Times Book Review

“Harrison is brilliant at portraying this wild country.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

“This Michigan writer … knows life in a way that few will admit to, and writes about it in a ribald, vigorous, and intelligent fashion … I don’t know an American writer who displays more boldly his gusto and love of life … A national treasure.”

—Alan Cheuse, Chicago Tribune

“A writer with immortality in him.”

—Sunday Times (UK)

“Always as exhilarating as a breath of fresh air … Harrison’s fiction … is rooted in a deep connection with nature and infused with passion for the vast wilds of America and respect for its disenfranchised.”

—NPR

“Jim Harrison is a master storyteller and one of the most prolific and powerful American authors.”

—Oregonian

“The answer [to Harrison’s popularity] is not in Harrison’s subject; it is in his ongoing embrace throughout his work, his unembarrassed embrace of what he cares about. The past twenty-five years has been a timid time in American writing, pinched and cramped by ideology and theory, a time of rules and warnings. Harrison abides by none of these … He writes about huge American spaces in an intimate way.”

—William Corbett, Boston Phoenix

“No one has advanced and expanded the American literary ethos in the latter part of the twentieth century more cogently, usefully, and just plain brilliantly than Jim Harrison … This is a matter to which all literate Americans should pay serious attention.”

—Hayden Carruth

“Set in the heart of America, his stories move with random power and reach, in the manner of Melville and Faulkner.”

—Boston Globe

“Harrison stands high among the writers of his generation.”

—New Yorker

“Harrison is among the foremost writers of the literary generation that has succeeded Styron, Mailer, Jones and Updike.”

—Philip Caputo

Also by Jim Harrison

Also by Jim Harrison

FICTION

Legends of the Fall

A Good Day to Die

Farmer

Wolf

Sundog

Dalva

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

Julip

The Road Home

The Beast God Forgot to Invent

True North

The Summer He Didn’t Die

Returning to Earth

The English Major

The Farmer’s Daughter

The Great Leader

The River Swimmer

Brown Dog

The Big Seven

The Ancient Minstrel

CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

The Boy Who Ran to the Woods

POETRY

Plain Song

Locations

Outlyer and Ghazals

Letters to Yesenin

Returning to Earth

Selected & New Poems: 1961–1981

The Theory and Practice of Rivers and New Poems

After Ikkyū and Other Poems

The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems

Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry, with Ted Kooser

Saving Daylight

In Search of Small Gods

Songs of Unreason