{"title":"Jim Harrison","description":"\u003cp\u003eJim Harrison's work offers a profound exploration of human nature, weaving together vivid storytelling with rich descriptions of the natural world. His novels and stories often delve into complex, deeply felt relationships and the quiet moments of life that reveal universal truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a blend of lyrical prose and raw emotion, where themes of love, loss, and redemption unfold against settings that range from rustic landscapes to introspective interiors. Harrison's writing invites reflection on the beauty and brutality of existence alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dalva-by-jim-harrison-9781611854305","title":"Dalva","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of Harrison's most ambitious novels, \u003ci\u003eDalva\u003c\/i\u003e explores an extraordinary family through the strong, engaging voice of an unforgettable woman, confirming Harrison as one of America's most memorable writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711185211628,"sku":"9781611854305","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24476863482761.jpg?v=1754198526"},{"product_id":"legends-of-the-fall-by-jim-harrison-9781611855234","title":"Legends of the Fall","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved and critically acclaimed writers. The classic \u003cem\u003eLegends of the Fall\u003c\/em\u003e is Harrison at his most memorable: a striking collection of novellas written with exceptional brilliance and a ferocious love of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title novella, \u003cem\u003eLegends of the Fall\u003c\/em\u003e — 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, Harrison's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso including the novellas \u003cem\u003eRevenge\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Man Who Gave Up His Name\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLegends of the Fall\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Jim Harrison's reputation as one of the finest American voices of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844351742188,"sku":"9781611855234","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24486153482761.jpg?v=1758838082"},{"product_id":"braided-creek-by-ted-kooser-9781556596797","title":"Braided Creek","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBraided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the dearest, most appealing books ever published. These poems are tiny, delicious American haiku affectionately exchanged between two friends. This slim volume acts as a palate-cleanser, a spirit-booster, a little rocket-ship of wonders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison were an unlikely pair to become friends, they shared an intimate correspondence of handwritten letters that often included new poems. After Kooser was diagnosed with cancer, Harrison sensed his friend's poetry becoming \"overwhelmingly vivid,\" and their friendship deepened through the exchange of brief poems that captured the essence of what they wanted to say to each other. After hundreds of poems were sent back and forth through the mail, they found this volume hidden within the stacks of envelopes and postcards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWise, wry, and penetrating, these epigrammatic, aphoristic poems explore love and friendship, pausing to celebrate the natural world, aging, everyday things and scenes, and poetry itself. This expanded edition includes a dozen new poems, and when asked why none of the poems have attributions, one of the co-authors replied, \"This book is an assertion in favour of poetry and against credentials.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47485964550380,"sku":"9781556596797","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c94413a89dec73e4eac540ff089b9ee8.jpg?v=1775785166"},{"product_id":"returning-to-earth-by-jim-harrison-9780802143310","title":"Returning to Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the universally-praised \u003ci\u003eReturning to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece—a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDonald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. His condition deteriorating, he realises no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife, Cynthia, stories he has never shared with anyone—as around him, his family struggles to lay him to rest with the same dignity with which he has lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of the year following Donald's death, his daughter begins studying Chippewa ideas of death for clues about her father's religion, while Cynthia, bereft of the family she created to escape the malevolent influence of her own father, finds that redeeming the past is not a lost cause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReturning to Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply moving book about origins and endings, making sense of loss, and living with honour for the dead. 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The great project of life, he reminds us, is to sit still long enough to appreciate it.\" - Anthony Doerr, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers. Of all his creations, \u003ci\u003eBrown Dog\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, now in paperback, this book gathers together all the Brown Dog novellas, including one that has never been published. \u003ci\u003eBrown Dog\u003c\/i\u003e 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 radicalisation results in B.D. wandering Los Angeles in search of a stolen bearskin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen 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 towards 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWitty and poignantly human, \u003ci\u003eBrown Dog\u003c\/i\u003e underscores Harrison's place as one of America's most irrepressible writers, and one of our finest practitioners of the novella form. 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