He traces his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with books to a young man making his way among fellow writers he deeply admired-writers like Tom McGuane, Philip Caputo, Peter Matthiessen, Robert Lowell, W. In Off to the Side, Harrison writes about his upbringing in Michigan, the austerities of life amid the Depression and the Second World War, and the seemingly greater austerities of his starchy Swedish forebears, who have inspired so much of his writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is this spirit of which The Oregonian wrote, “The magic of writing as good as Harrison’s is that it can bridge the gulf of human separation.” Now, for the first time, Jim Harrison has put pen to paper to write about his own life-a life that he captures with a riveting directness and a delightful, resonant music. And he is perhaps just as loved for the spirit from which he writes-devoted to the senses, staunchly unpretentious, and ever mindful of the dangers of straying too far from our origins. ![]() For nearly forty years Jim Harrison has been one of America’s most-beloved writers, a literary giant who has given us American classics like Dalva, Legends of the Fall, and The Road Home.
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