The Summer He Didnt Die, Jim Harrison
The Summer He Didnt Die, Jim Harrison
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The Summer He Didn't Die

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Lloyd James, and Marguerite

Unabridged: 8 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

Celebrated author Jim Harrison delivers a collection of three novellas infused with the wisdom and wit that have made him a master writer. The title novella, The Summer He Didnt Die, introduces us to Brown Dog, a hapless but charming Michigan Indian trying to parent his two stepchildren on meager resources. Republican Wives is a riotous satire on the sexual neuroses of the political right and the irrational nature of love. Tracking tells the authors life story as a tale of the places that have marked it.

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dean

This is tough, I wish i could give it 3 and a 1/2. The first is about a reoccurring character, Brown Dog, who I really love reading about. If I could just rate that story, I would give it a 5. Harrison really uses BD to simplify the human condition in a way that is memorable and relatable in an odd......more

Goodreads review by M.

[URL not allowed] ...Who said that there really is no past, only what we remember?... I read the first novella in the stories collected in the book titled Brown Dog. Given that the Brown Dog novellas are some of Harrison’s most beloved works I will restrain myself in light of m......more

Goodreads review by Steve

3 novellas, but I give it 4 stars for the last novella, "Trackings," which is a very fine portrait of Harrison as a writer.......more

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