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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.
