The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Jim Harrison
The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Jim Harrison
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The Woman Lit by Fireflies

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie, and Lorna Raver

Unabridged: 8 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/30/2009

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

The Woman Lit by Fireflies is a rollicking collection of three novellas that spans the odd contours of the American landscape. It introduces Harrisons beloved character Brown Dog, an exBible student with raucously asocial tendencies who rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected bounty. Elsewhere, a band of sixties radicals reunite to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail. And a fiftyyearold suburban housewife flees quietly from her abusive businessman husband and explores the bittersweet pageant of the preceding years within the sanctuary of an Iowa cornfield.

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 Jeffrey on May 25, 2016

This was my first Jim Harrison book but it won't be my last. Like many of his books, this one consists of several, unrelated novellas. Each are great in their own right, but two in particular stand out. First, there's "Brown Dog," which is one of the funniest pieces of fiction I've read in a while;......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on April 22, 2020

This is a collection of three novellas all about 80-85 pages in length. I have not read him before, but I understand that his fiction was primarily that of novellas, and published three to a volume. I thought perhaps they would be inter-related, but they have absolutely nothing in common, at least s......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on June 12, 2011

My first Jim Harrison book, certainly not my last. Too rich to gobble, but too interesting not to. He writes in voices, maintains perspectives, so distinct that it's vertiginous (to me). He firehoses the reader with original thoughts about freedom, love, personal morality, time (remembering and look......more

Goodreads review by Shelley on November 21, 2016

Another three wonderful novellas from Harrison. My favorite is "The Woman Lit By Fireflies,' and not just because of the title, which is so evocative. It's a remarkably nuanced portrait both of an upper- middle-class suburban woman, Clare, who runs away from her husband. He is described as "abusive"......more

Goodreads review by M. on September 21, 2020

[URL not allowed] ...Ever since he first popped out of the egg man has been weeping… The second novella, Sunset Limited, read like a long synopsis for a film script. A really lazy, and almost lame, effort by Jim Harrison. Action was stated and forwarded, feelings and thoughts e......more

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