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Cliff, a retired Michigan high school teacher, cheated out of his family farm by Vivian, his ex-wife of thirty-eight years, embarks on a journey of discovery when he sets out on a road trip across America, determined to rename all the states and state names, and reconnect with his son and other people from the past.
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Jim Harrison's vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master of the novella. His latest highly acclaimed volume of novellas, The Summer He Didn't Die, is a sparkling and exuberant collection about love, the senses, and family, no matter how untraditional. In the title novella, The Summer He Didn't Die, Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren and take care of his family's health...
3) Warlock
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This "sort of detective story" by the New York Times bestselling novelist offers "farcical, reflective, luscious, gritty [and] stylish entertainment" ( The New York Times ). As a Boy Scout, Johnny Lundgren was given the nickname Warlock. Now, at forty-two years of age, Johnny has decided to take up that moniker again. It might be an odd name for an unemployed business executive living in Traverse City, Michigan. But perhaps it fits his new job working...
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Grove Atlantic
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[2007]
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English
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A cornucopia of culinary essays from "the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious" (Jeffrey Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal ). Jim Harrison was one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he also wrote some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is...
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Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"For wine enthusiasts and newcomers alike, a sharp gathering of writing about wine's multidimensional, occasionally subversive pleasures." -- Kirkus Reviews In this anthology, Jay McInerney -- bestselling novelist, winner of a James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing, and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country , Wall Street Journal , and House and Garden -- selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the...
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Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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An essay collection from "the Henry Miller of food writing" and New York Times -bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked ( The Wall Street Journal ). Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food pieces for the first time, A Really Big Lunch "brings him roaring to the page again in all his unapologetic immoderacy, with spicy bon mots and salty language augmented...
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