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Three classic novellas from âone of our master chroniclers of human hungers, flaws, and frustrations.â (The Kansas City Star).  Jim Harrisonâs vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master of the novella. His highly acclaimed volume of novellas, The Summer He Didnât Die, is a sparkling and exuberant collection about love, the senses, and family, no matter how untraditional. In the title novella, Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren and take care of his familyâs health on meager resources. (It helps a bit that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town.) Republican Wives is a wicked satire on the sexual neuroses of the right, the emptiness of a life lived for the status quo, and the irrational power of love that, when thwarted, can turn so easily into an urge to murder. And Tracking is a meditation on Harrisonâs fascination with place, telling his own familiar mythology through the places his life has seen and the intellectual loves he has known.  With wit as sharp and prose as lush as any Harrison has yet written, The Summer He Didnât Die is a resonant, warm, and joyful ode to our journey on this earth.  âHarrison has proved to be one of our finest storytellers. These novellas are urgent and contemporary, displaying his marvelous gifts for compression and idiosyncratic language.â âLos Angeles Times |
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