The search for the genuine : nonfiction, 1970-2015 / Jim Harrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016.

Harrison, Jim.

Hunting.

Voyages and travels.

Life.

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

Travel.

Genre:

Essays.

Travel writing.

Physical Description:

xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2022.

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)"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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

Peter Matthiessen 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, and 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.

Other Format:

Online version: Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016. Essays. Selections Search for the genuine.

ISBN:

9780802157218

0802157211

OCLC:

1336892430