Books by Jim Harrison
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review 1: This collection of novellas contains all of the classic elements of Harrison's work: lots of sex, booze, fishing, dogs and walks in the woods. Brown Dog, or B.D., is a simple fellow with some admirable traits, and some that may be baffling, until the reader understands where Bro...
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review 1: Strange... very strange... I've read some works by Jim Harrison before, so I know he is capable of writing rather well. However, you really would never know it by this book. I only read The River Swimmer, and now have no intention of reading the other novella. The River Swimmer w...
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review 1: The English Major, by Jim Harrison, Narrated by Mark Bramhall, Produced by Blackstone Audio, downloaded from audible.com.Publishe’rs note says it as well as I can:"It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn't."With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that ...
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review 1: Another highly recommended set of novellas from Jim Harrison."The Land of Unlikeness" concerns Clive as he enters his “third act.” By now he is a failed artist turned art historian, academic, art appraiser, etc., whom we meet as he returns to the family farm to care for his elder...
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review 1: p. 14 The world is a wobbly place, so is the mind.p. 21 She was what you would call an off brand peach, real pretty to some tastes but a little exotic to the local boys.p.38 My mom used to say that Dad had mental problems but before she died she admitted that Dad just had too muc...
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review 1: I feel that most times in Mystery novels that writers(Male) tend to make the lead character a washed up cynical man in his early to mid fifties who has been divorced atleast once, his children don't have the best relationship with him but he's oddly okay with it, he drinks a ton ...
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review 1: Started reading this book, and it went pretty fast. Initally I was intrigued by the premise of the retired detective chasing a cult leader. But this novel isn't really about that. It really is not super plot driven, and much more of a study of the headspace and philosophical m...