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The Beast God Forgot to Invent
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $20.00
ISBN13: 9780802138361
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Sep 18 2001
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
An unforgettable collection of novellas from the author of Legends of the Fall explores the line between civilization and the wild men.
Jim Harrison is an American master. The Beast God Forgot to Invent offers 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.
Harrison's intricate symbolism and scathing observations of urban foibles, his sly humor and vibrant language remind readers that he is one of our most talented chroniclers of the masculine psyche, intellectual or not. --Publishers Weekly
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