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Jim Harrison (b. 1937) is well known for his blunt, brave style in prose, poetry, screenplays, and nonfiction. In Conversations with Jim Harrison, the Michigan-born writer's directness and passion shine throughout.Conversations with Jim Harrison is the first-ever collection of interviews by this well-known, prolific writer whose books include twenty-two volumes of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published over a period of thirty-six years. In ...

[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that makes you turn the pages hungry for more . . . Jim Harrison has staked out a distinctive place in the world of food writing.”-Jane and Michael Stern, New York Times Book Review on The Raw and the Cooked New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison...

In his universally-praised book, Harrison has delivered a masterpiece--a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places.

Coca-Cola is a true American original and one of the world's most recognized and popular American products. In The Coca-Cola Art of Jim Harrison, the artist traces his lifelong love affair with the Coca-Cola trademark that began during his childhood in rural South Carolina.

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved and critically acclaimed writers. The classic Legends of the Fall is Harrison at his most memorable: a striking collection of novellas written with exceptional brilliance and a ferocious love of life. The title novella, "Legends of the Fall”-which was made into the film of the same name-is an epic, moving tale of three brothers fighting for justice in a world gon...

A New York Times bestseller, The Ancient Minstrel is a stunning collection of novellas that highlight Jim Harrison's phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition. Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella, about an aging writer in Montana who indulges his lifelong dream of raising pigs, struggles to write the "big novel” he's rashly promised his edito...

Harrison tells a personal story of Jimmy, a little boy who injures his eye and must learn life's meaning through adversity. This injury leads to his discovery of nature, and his ability to overcome intense suffering. Color illustrations.

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New in paperback: A bestselling collection of novellas about wild men and civilization is offered by one of the major American writers of our time. These are stories of humans and beasts, of men driven crazy by longing, and of men who dream they are becoming bears.

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 Didn't Die, " Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren on meager resources, it helps that his charms are irres...

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 Didn't Die, " Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren on meager resources, it helps that his charms are irres...

This collection of novellas by acclaimed writer Jim Harrison is a sweeping tribute to the nations heartland and the colorful, courageous people who inhabit it, looking for the incandescent beneath the ordinary.

This collection of novellas by acclaimed writer Jim Harrison is a sweeping tribute to the nations heartland and the colorful, courageous people who inhabit it, looking for the incandescent beneath the ordinary.

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Jim Harrison is well known for his distinctive paintings of landscapes and seascapes. Throughout his career, he has painted many rural scenes of small-town America, but he has never forgotten that it was his love for the southern coast that launched his career. This affection becomes truly evident in Pathways to a Southern Coast. Between the covers of this handsome volume you will find paintings and sketches of sand dunes, salt marshes, lighth...

Named a "Top Ten Bestseller” by the Poetry Foundation and "highly recommended” in Library Journal's starred review. Now in paperback.

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.

Harrison's latest highly acclaimed volume of novellas is a sparkling and exuberant collection about love, the senses, and family, no matter how untraditional.

In "Julip" a young woman tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail. "The Seven-Ounce Man" continues the adventures of Brown Dog, and "The Beige Dolorosa" is about an academic recovering from a sexual harassment scandal.

In "Julip" a young woman tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail. "The Seven-Ounce Man" continues the adventures of Brown Dog, and "The Beige Dolorosa" is about an academic recovering from a sexual harassment scandal.