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Nageur De Rivière (2014)

by Jim Harrison(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

2081262096 (ISBN13: 9782081262096)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Flammarion

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 elderly mother. All the Harrison hallmarks are here: bird watching, food, wine, love, lost love, found love, urban and rural landscapes, and a very nice art lesson to boot."The River Swimmer" is a coming of age story featuring Thad, almost 18, farm raised and born to swim. His dream is to swim all the great bodies of water in the world, and with his natural aptitude, the prospect is a distinct possibility. As he considers his future, we sense that his ability to discern that which is inauthentic ... moreto his nature will see him through.
review 2: Didn't make it to the first novella, the second one was just awful. There were a few great paragraphs early on, with the mystical fish babies and all, and the obsession with swimming had promise. Otherwise I thought Harrison really embarrassed himself here. Felt like notes for a future story that he didn't bother to actually write."The River Swimmer" had the melodramatic plot line of a dime-novel Western, without about as much character development as you'd expect to get in a penny-dreadful. Might have been more convincing if it wasn't set in contemporary Michigan. Lots of braggadocio about muscles and trout. What wasn't just plain bad writing struck me as chauvinistic male fantasy porn -- chesty teenagers having stand-up quickies in the woods, flat characterless women, power-hungry males fighting like bucks with tire irons.... and, of course, a Chippewa nanny named Tooth, somewhere back there in the landscape, watching white people degenerate as the timeless river flows on. Same tired old themes. Had promise, but fell apart amazingly fast. less

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