"What Harrison does on every page of "Brown Dog" is have fun . . .
not simply for the sake of delight but because he believes delight
is as close to sublimity as humans can get. . . . The great project
of life, he reminds us, is to sit still long enough to appreciate
it." --Anthony Doerr, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Brown Dog is . . . an everyman on the most fundamental level . . .
vividly, evocatively, alive. . . . These novellas read like a
nuanced conversation between author and character. . . .
Masterful." --David Ulin, "Los Angeles Times"
"New York Times" best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of
America's most beloved writers. Of all his creations, Brown Dog has
earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since
his first appearance, scrambling to stay out of jail after his
salvage-diving operation uncovers the frozen body of an Indian man
in the waters of Lake Superior. A "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of
the Year, now in paperback, this book gathers together all the
Brown Dog novellas, including one that has never been published.
Brown Dog is a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian, a
former pulp cutter who looks on work as something to do when he
needs money, far inferior to the pleasures of fishing. Of course,
the flip side of this is that he's never far from catastrophe.
Overindulging in food, drink, and women while just scraping by,
B.D. meets a nubile archaeologist who presses him for the location
of a sacred Native American burial ground; the ensuing flirtation
with radicalization results in B.D. wandering Los Angeles in search
of a stolen bearskin. When he returns home a little older and
wiser, B.D. will seek out family and end up pining for the lesbian
social worker who's pushing him toward stability. The collection
culminates with "He Dog," written for this book, which finds B.D.
still marginally employed and looking for love (or sometimes just a
few beers and a roll in the hay) as he goes on a road trip from
Michigan to Montana and back, in search of an answer to the riddle
of family and, perhaps, a chance at redemption.
Witty and poignantly human, "Brown Dog" underscores Harrison's
place as one of America's most irrepressible writers, and one of
our finest practitioners of the novella form. It is the ideal
introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's irresistible
everyman.
General
Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2014 |
First published: |
September 2014 |
Authors: |
Jim Harrison
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Dimensions: |
228 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
544 |
Edition: |
First Trade Paper Edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-2286-5 |
Categories: |
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Fiction >
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LSN: |
0-8021-2286-8 |
Barcode: |
9780802122865 |
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