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The search for the genuine : nonfiction, 1970-2015 / Jim Harrison ; with an introduction by Luis Alberto Urrea.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802157218
- ISBN: 0802157211
- Physical Description: xx, 314 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Published simultaneously in Canada"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The man who ate books -- Dogs in the manger : on love, spirit, and literature -- Dog years : on hunting -- Michigan, Montana, and other sacred places -- The beginner : and other journalism -- Floating : on fishing, and on the water. |
| Summary, etc.: | "New York Times-bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet's economy of style and a trencherman's appetites. Best known for fiction and poetry, Harrison was also a prolific nonfiction writer, with columns running in Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and work in Outside, Field & Stream, and others. Written with Harrison's trademark ribald humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, The Search for the Genuine is a collection of pieces-from the near-classic to the never-published-that muse on everything from grouse hunting and ocean fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, as well as reporting on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open Atlantic, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life-and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death-on the US-Mexico border. Written with Harrison's trademark humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, this chronicle of a modern bon vivant is a feast for fans who may think they know Harrison's nonfiction, from a true "American original" (San Francisco Chronicle)"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | American essays > 20th century. American essays > 21st century. |
| Genre: | Essays. |
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- 1 of 2 copies available at GRPL.
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Table of Contents
The Search for the Genuine : Selected Nonfiction
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| This Immense River: Notes on Jim Harrison's Nonfiction | p. ix | |
| The Man Who Ate Books | p. xvii | |
| Dogs in the Manger: On Love, Spirit, and Literature | ||
| Why I Write | p. 3 | |
| Sitting Around | p. 5 | |
| Dogs in the Manger | p. 10 | |
| My Leader | p. 16 | |
| Nesting in Air | p. 18 | |
| First Person Female | p. 21 | |
| Great Poems Make Good Prayers | p. 27 | |
| Peter Matthiessen and a Writer's Sport | p. 31 | |
| The Pleasures of the Damned | p. 41 | |
| Steinbeck | p. 46 | |
| Lauren Hutton's ABCs | p. 48 | |
| Introduction to Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda | p. 53 | |
| Why I Write, Or Not | p. 59 | |
| Thoreau | p. 66 | |
| Dream as a Metaphor of Survival | p. 70 | |
| Blue Panties | p. 83 | |
| Wisdom | p. 87 | |
| Dog Years: On Hunting | ||
| Dog Years | p. 91 | |
| A New Map of the Sacred Territory | p. 100 | |
| Delta Hunt | p. 105 | |
| The Misadventure Journals | p. 110 | |
| Hunting with a Friend: On Good Friends and Foul Weather | p. 117 | |
| Marching to a Different Drummer | p. 122 | |
| Meditations on Hunting | p. 133 | |
| Spring Coda | p. 144 | |
| Michigan, Montana, and Other Sacred Places | ||
| A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska | p. 151 | |
| Not Quite Leaving Michigan | p. 157 | |
| Old, Faithful, and Mysterious | p. 165 | |
| Safely without Portfolio in Key West | p. 178 | |
| Pie in the Sky | p. 183 | |
| The Beginner's Mind | p. 188 | |
| Learning Montana, or Turn Me Loose | p. 197 | |
| Life on the Border | p. 205 | |
| The Beginner and Other Journalism | ||
| The Beginner Meets the Eight Samurai | p. 223 | |
| A Delicate Creature | p. 231 | |
| Real Big Brown Truck | p. 242 | |
| Floating: On Fishing, and on the Water | ||
| On the Water | p. 249 | |
| Starting Over | p. 258 | |
| The Mad Marlin of Punta Carnero | p. 271 | |
| Fishing a Watershed | p. 282 | |
| The Beauty of the Jump | p. 287 | |
| A River Never Sleeps | p. 299 | |
| Floating | p. 303 | |
| Early Fishing | p. 309 | |
| Publisher's Acknowledgments | p. 311 | |
| Photo Credits | p. 313 |
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