A Really Big Lunch

Name: A Really Big Lunch
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jim Harrison
ISBN: 9781538404874

Author: Jim Harrison, Mario Batali

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 03/24/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Cooking

Synopsis

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food. A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time—and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in this book, from the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more. A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed comments and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And, between the lines, the pieces give glimpses of Harrison’s life over the last three decades.A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.

About Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was the author of over thirty-five books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Legends of the Fall, The Road Home, The English Major, and The Farmer’s Daughter. His writing appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and the New York Times. He earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association. His work has been recognized worldwide and published in twenty-two languages.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.

Reviews

Goodreads review by M. on February 17, 2017

[URL not allowed] …Hundreds warned me I was going to die young from smoking and drinking but I disappointed them… I was thirty-one when I first discovered Harrison’s best writer friend Thomas McGuane back in 1984. There was an article in the Detroit Free Press magazine that deal......more

Goodreads review by Matt on September 04, 2017

It's kind of a shame I didn't end up enjoying Jim Harrison's essay collection as much as I had hoped. All the same, you shouldn't let my star reading deter you since it is an opinion on the collection as a whole and there's many great essays to be read from this delightful scoundrel. This one was re......more

Goodreads review by Erik on April 21, 2017

How does someone write a book, including numerous words that I've never seen before, and not sound pretentious doing so?! For the answer, you need only check out Harrison's writing. I really enjoyed reading this collection of essays, talking about food, wine, the great outdoors, and living life to t......more

Goodreads review by Mmontano on June 21, 2018

There was a time when Harrison was my favorite contemporary author of fiction. Often misunderstood as being too full of machismo he was, in fact, a champion of strong women while mocking his male protagonists for their false manliness and chauvanism. I lost interest in his fiction when his themes fe......more

Goodreads review by Lotty on June 25, 2017

Oh, I loved the writing of Jim Harrison and he is sorely missed in this world. I'm reading this book slowly and quickly, alternately delving deeply (reading a word at a time, a chapter at a time) and browsing (reading a paragraph or a sentence, then flipping to examine the photographs, then flipping......more

Quotes

“Jim Harrison is the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious.” Wall Street Journal

“A Really Big Lunch…brings him roaring to the page again in all his unapologetic immoderacy, with spicy bon mots and salty language.” NPR

“Harrison’s enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well…His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp.” Boston Globe

“Showcases [Harrison’s] irascible wit and lust for life.” Newsday

“Sage and succulent essays…[with] Harrison’s searing wit and capacious heart.” Shelf Awareness (starred review)

“A celebration of eating well and drinking even better as a recipe for the good life.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“His gusto sparkles throughout this collection of magazine essays on food.” Publishers Weekly

Awards

Amazon Best Book of the Month
Voice Arts Award
Shelf Awareness Best Book