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Publisher's summary
In Farmer, Jim Harrison tells the story of Joseph, a 43-year-old farmer and school teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers - one a younger woman, the other his beautiful childhood friend - he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or finally seek the wider, more broader horizons he has avoided all his life.
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By: John Cheever
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Main Street (Annotated): 100th Anniversary Edition
- By: Sinclair Lewis
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 19 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61
A biting satire that countered the American myth of wholesome small-town life with a depiction of narrow-minded provincialism, it was to some degree based on Lewis's own experience of growing on Sauk Centre, Minnesota. Set in mid-1910s, it depicts the struggles of Carol Kennicott, a city girl, as she tries to adapt to small town life, having left her librarian job and St. Paul, Minnesota to marry Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie. Dismayed by the town’s drabness and the conforming, petty inhabitants, Carol optimistically sets out to improve the town.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What Are Your Assumptions About Yourself & Others
- By Benny Fife on 02-06-20
By: Sinclair Lewis
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Pale Horse, Pale Rider
- Three Short Novels
- By: Katherine Anne Porter
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
The classic 1939 collection of three novellas by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author and journalist, including the famous title story set during the influenza epidemic of 1918.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Some of the most brilliant prose ever written
- By Anonymous User on 03-21-23
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
- By: Robert Hillman
- Narrated by: Daniel Lapaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
It is 1968 in rural Australia and lonely Tom Hope can't make heads or tails of Hannah Babel. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah is unlike anyone he's ever met - she's passionate, artistic, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Despite the fact that Tom has only read only one book in his life, the two soon discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife - and still missing her sweet son, Peter - Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mezmerizing and Stirring
- By C. Cohen on 05-02-20
By: Robert Hillman
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The Hemingway Stories
- As Featured in the Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: Stacy Keach, John Bedford Lloyd, Tobias Wolff
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 167
Showcasing the best of Ernest Hemingway’s short stories including his well-known classics - as featured in the magnificent three-part, six-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick - this new collection is introduced by award-winning author Tobias Wolff.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great selection
- By Tad Davis on 03-02-21
By: Ernest Hemingway
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Vanishing Falls
- A Novel
- By: Poppy Gee
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 100
Deep within the lush Tasmanian rainforest is the remote town of Vanishing Falls, a place with a storied past. The town’s showpiece, built in the 1800s, is its Calendar House - currently occupied by Jack Lily, a prominent art collector and landowner; his wife, Celia; and their four daughters. The elaborate, eccentrically designed mansion houses one masterpiece and 52 rooms - and Celia Lily isn’t in any of them. She has vanished without a trace.… Joelle Smithton knows that a few folks in Vanishing Falls believe that she’s simple-minded.
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2 out of 5 stars
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OK Story
- By Cindy House on 12-21-21
By: Poppy Gee
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The Dream House
- By: Craig Higginson
- Narrated by: Terry Lloyd-Roberts
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
A farmhouse is being reproduced a dozen times, with slight variations, throughout a valley. Three small graves have been dug in the front garden, the middle one lying empty. A woman in a wheelchair sorts through boxes while her husband clambers around the old demolished buildings, wondering where the animals have gone. A young woman – called ‘the barren one’ behind her back – dreams of love, while an ageing headmaster contemplates the end of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant Dream House Narration
- By Simon Griffiths on 05-05-21
By: Craig Higginson
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Close Range
- Wyoming Stories (Selected Unabridged Stories)
- By: Annie Proulx
- Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 203
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below", a rodeo rider's obsession marks the deepening fissures between his family life and self-imposed isolation. In "The Half-Skinned Steer", an elderly fool drives west to the ranch he grew up on for his brother's funeral, and dies a mile from home.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderfully Ironic and Surprising Read
- By Susan L. Stewart on 04-21-12
By: Annie Proulx
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Driving on the Rim
- By: Thomas McGuane
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, M.D., whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the erotic initiation at the hands of his aunt. It's hard to imagine what would have become of him had he not gone to medical school.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Delightful
- By Roy on 01-05-11
By: Thomas McGuane
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Good Poems
- Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
- By: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and others
- Narrated by: Garrison Keillor
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 159
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 148
Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very good, but. . .
- By KSmith on 01-27-11
By: Emily Dickinson, and others
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Gary Sinise
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,442
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,775
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,773
In September 1960, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America, from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Travels with Charley is animated by Steinbeck’s attention to the specific details of the natural world and his sense of how the lives of people are intimately connected to the rhythms of nature—to weather, geography, the cycles of the seasons. His keen ear for the transactions among people is evident, too, as he records the interests and obsessions that preoccupy the Americans he encounters along the way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gary Sinise is fantastic!
- By C. Wilson on 01-11-17
By: John Steinbeck
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The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna
- A Novel
- By: Juliet Grames
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 677
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 590
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 590
For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents - moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted. When the Fortunas emigrate to America on the cusp of World War II, Stella and her sister, Tina, must come of age side by side in a hostile new world with strict expectations for each of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misogyny at its worst
- By brenda on 01-15-20
By: Juliet Grames
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The Hearts of Horses
- A Novel
- By: Molly Gloss
- Narrated by: Renée Raudman
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Story4 out of 5 stars 190
The irresistible tale of 19-year-old Martha Lessen, a female horse whisperer trying to make a go of it in a man's world. It was thought that the only way to break a horse was to buck the wild out of it, and broken ribs and tough falls just went with the job. But over several long, hard winter months, many of the townsfolk in this remote county of eastern Oregon witness Martha's way of talking in low, sweet tones to horses believed beyond repair---and getting miraculous, almost immediate results.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simple, Honest, Wonderful
- By Julie W. Capell on 11-08-09
By: Molly Gloss
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The Pastures of Heaven
- By: John Steinbeck
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 309
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 272
Today, nearly 40 years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as Penguin Classics. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle, The Long Valley, The Moon Is Down, The Pastures of Heaven, and Tortilla Flat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Golden, mythical America
- By Dan Harlow on 07-07-13
By: John Steinbeck
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A Lush and Seething Hell
- Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
- By: John Hornor Jacobs
- Narrated by: Almarie Guerra, MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 402
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Story4 out of 5 stars 355
The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales - both never-before-published in print or audio - that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great idea, tarnished by modern politics
- By Phil on 04-28-21
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True North
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Story4 out of 5 stars 323
The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more than a father and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at 14 by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book
- By Paul Z. on 02-14-10
By: Jim Harrison
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The Woman Lit by Fireflies
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie, Lorna Raver
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
This audiobook introduces Brown Dog, an ex-Bible 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 60s radicals reunite to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail. And a 50-year-old 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional.
- By FrancoFile on 11-06-21
By: Jim Harrison
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The Search for the Genuine
- Nonfiction, 1970-2015
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet’s economy of style and trencherman’s appetites and ribald humor. In The Search for the Genuine, a collection of new and previously published essays, the giant of letters muses on everything from grouse hunting and fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life on the US/Mexico border.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Life Well Celebrated
- By Nice guy on 11-18-22
By: Jim Harrison
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A Really Big Lunch
- By: Jim Harrison, Mario Batali - introduction
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Jim Harrison's legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to 37 courses to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch's newsletter, and others; from the relationship between hunter and prey to the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison's pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines, the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh.
- By Abby Morton on 04-22-17
By: Jim Harrison, and others
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A Good Day to Die
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4 out of 5 stars 116
Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers, and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them - at first. With their ideals ostensibly in order, they set out from Florida to save the Grand Canyon from a dam they believed was being built. Along with the tape deck for the car, the liquor, and the drugs, there was also a case of dynamite.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointed
- By Tom on 06-19-19
By: Jim Harrison
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The Road Home
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Christian Baskous, Mark Bramhall, Stacey Glemboski, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 178
The Road Home lies in the shadows of Manifest Destiny and Wounded Knee; it is etched into the landscape of an old man’s memory and into the stubborn dreams of a young man’s heart. In one of Jim Harrison’s greatest works, five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. They strive to understand their fates, to reconcile with demons of the past, to live in accordance with the land, and to die with grace.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By William Novack on 08-06-21
By: Jim Harrison
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True North
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Story4 out of 5 stars 323
The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force more than a father and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at 14 by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book
- By Paul Z. on 02-14-10
By: Jim Harrison
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The Woman Lit by Fireflies
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie, Lorna Raver
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 117
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
This audiobook introduces Brown Dog, an ex-Bible 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 60s radicals reunite to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail. And a 50-year-old 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptional.
- By FrancoFile on 11-06-21
By: Jim Harrison
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The Search for the Genuine
- Nonfiction, 1970-2015
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story5 out of 5 stars 21
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet’s economy of style and trencherman’s appetites and ribald humor. In The Search for the Genuine, a collection of new and previously published essays, the giant of letters muses on everything from grouse hunting and fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life on the US/Mexico border.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Life Well Celebrated
- By Nice guy on 11-18-22
By: Jim Harrison
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A Really Big Lunch
- By: Jim Harrison, Mario Batali - introduction
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 125
Jim Harrison's legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to 37 courses to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch's newsletter, and others; from the relationship between hunter and prey to the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison's pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines, the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Meh.
- By Abby Morton on 04-22-17
By: Jim Harrison, and others
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A Good Day to Die
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 133
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Story4 out of 5 stars 116
Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers, and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them - at first. With their ideals ostensibly in order, they set out from Florida to save the Grand Canyon from a dam they believed was being built. Along with the tape deck for the car, the liquor, and the drugs, there was also a case of dynamite.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very disappointed
- By Tom on 06-19-19
By: Jim Harrison
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The Road Home
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Christian Baskous, Mark Bramhall, Stacey Glemboski, and others
- Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 193
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 178
The Road Home lies in the shadows of Manifest Destiny and Wounded Knee; it is etched into the landscape of an old man’s memory and into the stubborn dreams of a young man’s heart. In one of Jim Harrison’s greatest works, five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. They strive to understand their fates, to reconcile with demons of the past, to live in accordance with the land, and to die with grace.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By William Novack on 08-06-21
By: Jim Harrison
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Dalva
- A Novel
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey, Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
From her home on the California coast, Dalva hears the broad silence of the Nebraska prairie where she was born, and longs for the son she gave up for adoption years before. Beautiful, fearless, tormented, at 45 she has lived a life of lovers and adventures. Now, Dalva begins a journey that will take her back to the bosom of her family, to the half-Sioux lover of her youth, and to a pioneering great-grandfather whose journals recount the bloody annihilation of the Plains Indians.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Male fantasy of women
- By swiss miss on 10-09-23
By: Jim Harrison
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Warlock
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4 out of 5 stars 56
Johnny Lundgren, aka Warlock, is an unemployed foundation executive who, after surviving a midlife crisis, finally decides to get a job. Warlock soon gets hired by a crazy but genius doctor as a troubleshooter, where he's tasked with everything from battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan to investigating his employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West. A comedy with one foot in the abyss, Warlock is what the New York Times called "farcical, reflective, luscious, gritty" entertainment from one of this country's most beloved authors.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Harrison’s worst book?
- By Cascades Talgo on 04-29-21
By: Jim Harrison
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The Great Leader
- A Faux Mystery
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 309
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 271
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Story4 out of 5 stars 269
Author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In his most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel following one man’s hunt for an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Are you an over-thehill guy with one last mission?
- By Craig on 05-15-13
By: Jim Harrison
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The English Major
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 412
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 304
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Story4 out of 5 stars 303
Newly divorced and robbed of his farm by his real-estate shark of an ex-wife, 60-something Cliff is off on a road trip across America, on a mission to rename all the states and state birds and redeem them from the banal names men have given them.Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high-school teaching days 20-some years before, to a snake farm in Arizona owned by an old classmate, and into the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A picaresque novel for baby boomers
- By SW Clemens on 12-02-08
By: Jim Harrison
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Brown Dog
- Novellas
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Ray Porter, Lloyd James
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 428
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 381
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 385
New York Times best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog - a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian - has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. For the first time, Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume - the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's irresistible Everyman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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What a Hoot!
- By Dr. on 01-26-14
By: Jim Harrison
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Legends of the Fall
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,095
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 972
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 972
Set in the Rocky Mountains, Legends of the Fall is the epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration, and danger at the beginning of World War I. In Revenge, love causes the course of a man's life to be savagely and irrevocably altered. And in The Man Who Gave Up His Name, a man named Nordstrom is unable to relinquish his consuming obsessions with women, dancing, and food.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Cello music
- By Janice on 06-29-14
By: Jim Harrison
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Wolf
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 23
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Story4 out of 5 stars 23
Wolf tells the story of a man who - after too many nameless women and drunken nights - leaves Manhattan to roam the wilderness of northern Michigan, hoping to catch a glimpse of the rare wolves that prowl that territory. Returning Harrison fans will be ecstatic to re-discover this early novel once again, and for new listeners, this work serves as the perfect introduction to Harrison’s remarkable insight, storytelling skill, and evocation of the natural world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Can't finish it...
- By JoJoJem on 05-26-19
By: Jim Harrison
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The Ancient Minstrel
- Novellas
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Xe Sands, Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Story4 out of 5 stars 113
Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella about an aging writer in Montana who spars with his estranged wife, with whom he still shares a home; weathers the slings and arrows of literary success; and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim and the unplanned litter of piglets that follow soon after. In "Eggs", a Montana woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating shorts
- By judyp on 10-06-16
By: Jim Harrison
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Julip
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Ray Porter, Hillary Huber, William Hughes
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Jim Harrison takes us on a journey of the human heart in three new novellas. Julip follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail after he shot three of her former lovers. The Seven-Ounce Man continues the picaresque adventures of Brown Dog, a Michigan scoundrel who loves to eat, drink, and chase women. The Beige Dolorosa is the haunting tale of an academic who, recovering from the repercussions of a sexual-harassment scandal, turns to the natural world for solace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great collection.
- By Guy who wears shoes. on 04-17-22
By: Jim Harrison
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Sundog
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Christian Baskous, Traber Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Sundog is a powerful novel about the life and loves of a foreman named Robert Corvus Strang, who worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled in a fall down a 300-foot dam. Now as he tries to regain use of his legs, he has a chance to reassess his life, and a blasé journalist who has heard of Strang’s reputation in the field arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Harrison is Brilliant
- By Brian on 11-14-23
By: Jim Harrison
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The Summer He Didn't Die
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Lloyd James, Marguerite Gavin
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
Celebrated author Jim Harrison, whose robust, tender, and deeply felt books have made their mark on the American literary landscape, here delivers a collection of three novellas infused with all the wisdom and generous spirit that his readers have come to expect.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great collection in spite of performance flaws
- By Michael A. Franko on 07-16-21
By: Jim Harrison
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The River Swimmer
- Novellas
- By: Jim Harrison
- Narrated by: Traber Burns
- Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 85
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Jim Harrison is one of America’s most beloved and critically acclaimed authors, and this collection of novellas is Harrison at his most memorable - a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed experience
- By Doctor George on 05-29-16
By: Jim Harrison
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- William
- 02-17-21
my favorite harrison
sure, harrison tells these growing old in the north stories a hundred ways, but this one is my favorite. Perhaps it's because I read it at 43, but maybe it's just the best one.
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- Laurie Green
- 05-22-23
Down home story
This story is an easy listen and harkens back to recent times on a farm. The setting is interesting without being action-packed - much like real life. I enjoyed the narrator’s reading.
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- Steven Avery
- 03-12-22
Disappointing.
What a mediocre go nowhere book about nothing in particular that ends even worse. Actually it doesn’t even seem to end. It just stops.
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- Frank Donnelly
- 02-04-22
As An Audiobook Performance, Very Well Read, An Ok, Not Great Story
This is a very well read performance of a pretty good story. It is not an “action” story. It is about a middle age male dealing with what I suppose is a version of mid life crisis. It is set in Michigan in the 1950s. As an audiobook it is easily followed and I could listen to it while commuting.
The story sort of meanders. As a retired police officer the protagonist acts in a way that I consider dishonorable and hence I never actually like him. Obviously others may disagree. This is the kind of novel that I somewhat like, but do not need to read again without specific cause.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-13-22
Ugh
I could not even get halfway through the 2nd chapter and had to quit!
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- Lora Garman
- 11-25-22
Lame
A waste of time. The narrator was extremely boring to listen to. The story line was non existent. Not worth the time.
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- Nina Stillinger
- 03-25-23
Maybe I don’t know what’s good…..
Couldn’t get halfway through it. The narrative is so poor and slow. The story was slow and boring, no real point to it.
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- A. Neff
- 12-31-22
terrible story teller
Not sure if it's actually the worst Harrison novel I've read or if the reader was just so terrible as to make it seem that way but I didn't enjoy at all and I usually love Harrison.
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- Liberty Bell
- 02-08-21
Not what I expected.
I couldn't finish this book. I struggled to keep it on for the first hour. Not my kind of book for subject matter or sexual content. Narrator was good, just a poor storyline.
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- THATZLIFE
- 06-01-22
can't believe how it ended
After putting up with this slow tale...finally you think it's coming to some type of climax....then it just ends! horrible ending I tell ya!
What was the author thinking? I'm so disappointed!
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