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| Genre/Form: | Short stories Psychological fiction Fiction |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jim Harrison |
| ISBN: | 9780802120731 0802120733 |
| OCLC Number: | 795759613 |
| Description: | 198 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The land of unlikeness -- The river swimmer. |
| Other Titles: | Land of unlikeness. |
| Responsibility: | Jim Harrison. |
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Praise for "The River Swimmer" <br>"In his fiction, especially, [Harrison has] hit a deep groove. His meditations on mortality are blended with an antic wit. . . . Mr. Harrison's new book, "The River Swimmer" . . . contains some of the best writing of his career. Both novellas burn brightly with what he calls, at one point, 'unmitigated cupidity, ' not for money or possessions but for life and experience. . . . He is among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years . . . Mr. Harrison contains multitudes; like a good rabbit liver pate, there is a lot of him to spread around. . . . If "The River Swimmer" is any indication, he remains at the height of his powers."--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times" <br> "Trenchant and visionary . . . Harrison is a writer of the body, which he celebrates as the ordinary, essential and wondrous instrument by which we measure the world. Without it, there is no philosophy. And with it, of course, philosophy can be a rocky test. . . . I could feel Jim Harrison grinning . . . in his glorious novella "The River Swimmer.""--Ron Carlson, "The New York Times Book Review" <br> "[Harrison] has crafted gorgeous and wry sentences out of the quiet raging against the indignities and infirmities of age. And, in Clive, he has created another indelible and soulful rascal. . . . Harrison is one of our greatest voices of aging both clumsily and well and of teasing out hope amid sentimentality and dread."--Ian Crouch, "The Boston Globe " <br>"You can't escape your true nature, Jim Harrison's two new novellas assert. . . . Here, he's achieved a mood that approximates in modern terms the tranquility of Shakespeare's late romances. The existential uncertainties that always animate Harrison's fiction are not so much resolved as accepted for what they are: the basic fabric of existence, from which we pluck as much happiness as we can."--Wendy Smith, "The Washington Post" <br>"[Harrison's] latest book of novellas . . .deepens Read more...
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