Description
Jim Harrison is an American master, and The Beast God Forgot to Invent is a book that The New York Times Book Review called "a big, wet, sloppy kiss [that] Harrison continues to plant on the face of life itself." These are stories of culture and wildness, of men and beasts and where they overlap. A wealthy man retired to the Michigan woods narrates the tale of a younger man decivilized by brain damage. A Michigan Indian wanders Los Angeles, hobnobbing with starlets and screenwriters while he tracks an ersatz Native-American activist who stole his bearskin. An aging "alpha canine," the author of three dozen throwaway biographies, eats dinner with the ex-wife of his overheated youth, and must confront the man he used to be. As The Plain Dealer put it, "The Beast God Forgot to Invent is a proud addition to the Harrison oeuvre. It is exhilarating to watch a master at work."
"It's simply thrilling to see a writer reach for the sky and actually grab it." - Jonathan Miles, Salon
"One of our finest living writers." - Richard Kilgore, The Dallas Morning News
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jim Harrison is the author of the volumes of novellas Legends of the Fall, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, and Julip; the novels The Road Home, Wolf, A Good Day to Die, Farmer, Warlock, Sundog, and Dalva; seven poetry collections; and a collection of nonfiction, Just Before Dark. The winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the MPBA's Spirit of the West Award, his work has been published in twenty-two languages.
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