Jim Harrison

Siamo negli anni Cinquanta, in un Michigan rurale fatto di piccole e medie proprietà agricole. Joseph, un contadino di discendenza svedese, ha passato la vita tra i campi e l'insegnamento, perché un

Jim Harrison is one of our most renowned and popular authors, and his last novel, The Great Leader, was one of the most successful in a decorated career: It appeared on the New York Times extended bestseller list, and was a national bestseller with rapturous reviews. His darkly comic follow-up, The Big Seven, sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan.Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigans Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in than he realizes that his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader did. A family of outlaws, armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sundersons cleaning lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sundersons advice on a crime novel hes writing which may not be fiction. Sunderson must struggle with the evil within himself and the greater, more expansive evil of his neighbor.In a story shot through with wit, bedlam, and Sundersons attempts to enumerate and master the seven deadly sins, The Big Seven is a superb reminder of why Jim Harrison is one of Americas most irrepressible writers.

Trois nouvelles mettant en scène Sarah, adolescente de 15 ans, cherchant à se venger de l'agression dont elle a été victime, Chien Brun en quête de l'âme soeur, et un loup-garou tentant de mener une vie normale malgré ses accès de violence les soirs de pleine lune.

Due uomini e una donna, fra i tanti diseredati che si incontrano, uniscono le loro esistenze brade in un'avventura temeraria: far saltare con la dinamite una diga in costruzione che minaccia lo splen

Nel romanzo, narrato a piu voci, prende corpo la saga di una famiglia e di un'epoca. La prima voce narrante e quella del bisnonno di Dalva, un patriarca che ha del sangue Sioux nelle vene e un temperamento romantico e artistico, anche se cio non gli ha impedito di accumulare terre e bestiame in quantita. Il secondo io narrante e Nelse, il figlio illegittimo di Dalva che conduce un'esistenza da nomade vivendo sotto una tenda. Ma il richiamo di casa lo induce a tornare inm Nebraska dove ancora vivono sua madre e sua nonna, Naomi, l'unica che da quella terra non si e mai staccata. Solo Dalva abbandona la strada di casa mettendosi alla ricerca del suo giovane amante, Duane, che morira suicida.

Best-selling and beloved author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including Returning to Earth, Legends of the Fall, and over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In his newest and most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel that follows one mans hunt for an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader.Detective Sunderson is on the verge of retirement when he begins to investigate a hedonistic cult, which has set up camp near his home in Michigans Upper Peninsula. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but as Sunderson and his unlikely sixteen-year-old sidekick dig deeper, they find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized. Recently divorced and frequently pickled in alcohol, Sunderson tracks his quarry from the woods of Michigan to a town in Arizona that is filled with professional and criminal border-crossers, then on to Nebraska where the Great Leaders most recent recruits have gathered to glorify his questionable religion. But Sundersons demons are also in pursuit of him.Rich with character and incredibly funny, Jim Harrisons The Great Leader is at once a gripping excursion through Americas landscapes and the poignant story of a man grappling with age, lost love, and his own darker nature.

À quelques jours de la retraite, après une longue carrière dans la police du Michigan, Simon Sunderson s''accroche à une dernière enquête sur une secte hédoniste dont le gourou se fait appeler Grand

The late Jim Harrison was one of the true greats when it came to writing about food. He combined an attention to detail with a glorious prose style and a massive appetite... A must read. - ObserverNew York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of Americas most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as the poet laureate of appetite (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time - and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.Jim Harrisons legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, the Kermit Lynch Newsletter and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrisons pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrisons life over the last fifteen years. A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of Americas 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 gone mad. Moving from the raw landscape of early twentieth-century Montana to the blood-drenched European battlefields of World War I and back again to Montana, Harrisons powerful story explores the theme of revenge and the actions to which people resort when their lives or goals are threatened, painting an unforgettable portrait of the twentieth-century man.Also including the novellas Revenge and The Man Who Gave Up His Name,Legends of the Fall confirms Jim Harrisons reputation as one of the finest American voices of his generation.

From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at forty-five she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians. On the way, she discovers a story that stretches from East to West, from the Civil War to Wounded Knee and Vietnam, and finds the balm to heal her wild and wounded soul.One of Harrisons most ambitious novels, Dalva explores an extraordinary family through the strong, engaging voice of an unforgettable woman, confirming Harrison as one of Americas most memorable writers.

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Au fil de ces trois novelas puissantes et sauvages, Jim Harrison compose une tragédie moderne où la violence, la rédemption et l'amour vibrent à chaque page. De Cochran, l'ancien militaire laissé pou

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