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The search for the genuine : nonfiction, 1970-2015

Harrison, Jim 1937-2016 (author.). Urrea, Luis Alberto, (writer of introduction.).

Summary: "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)"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780802157218
ISBN: 0802157211
ISBN: 9780802157232
Physical Description: print
xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2022.

Content descriptions

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Author's name at head of title.

Formatted Contents Note:

This immense river: notes on Jim Harrison's nonfiction -- The man who ate books -- DOGS IN THE MANGER: ON LOVE, SPIRIT, AND LITERATURE. Why I write -- Sitting around -- Dogs in the manger -- My leader -- Nesting in air -- First person female -- Great poems make good prayers -- Petter Mattheissen and a writer's sport -- The pleasures of the damned -- Steinbeck -- Lauren Hutton's ABCs -- Introduction to Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda -- Why I write, or not -- Thoreau -- Dream as a metaphor of survival -- Blue panties -- Wisdom -- DOG YEARS: ON HUNTING. Dog years -- A new map of the sacred territory -- Delta hunt -- The misadventure journals -- Hunting with a friend: on good friends and foul weather -- Marching to a different drummer -- Meditations on hunting -- Spring coda -- MICHIGAN, MONTANA, AND OTHER SACRED PLACES. A prairie prologue in Nebraska -- Not quite leaving Michigan -- Old, Faithful, mysterious -- Safely without portfolio in Key West -- Pie in the sky -- The beginner's mind -- Learning Montana, or Turn me loose -- Life on the border -- THE BEGINNER AND OTHER JOURNALISM. The beginner meets the Eight Samurai -- A delicate creature -- Real big brown truck -- FLOATING: ON FISHING, AND ON THE WATER. On the water -- Starting over -- The Mad Marlin of Punta Carnero -- Fishing a watershed -- The beauty of the jump -- A river never sleeps -- Floating -- Early fishing.