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Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers.”Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Trenchant and visionary.”Ron Carlson, The New York Times Book Review
A New York Times best-seller, enthusiastically received by critics and embraced by readers, The River Swimmer is Jim Harrison at his most memorable: two men, one young and one older, confronting inconvenient loves and the encroachment of urbanity on nature, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity. In The Land of Unlikeness,” Clivea failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining yearsreluctantly returns to his family’s Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewalof ardor for his high school sweetheart, of his relationship with his es
