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A Good Day to Die (Paperback)

By: Jim Harrison (Author)

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"Jack Kerouac's highway hopes claimed by studded tires!...What amazes here is the fact that Harrison never lets up--from chemical high to emotional plunge, one disconnected cry after another. For those who enjoy driving without a steering wheel, this book is a must."

"The story is one of sexual frustration, drug psychosis, alcoholic dissipation, and inevitable disaster....Nevertheless, suitable for larger collections of modern American fiction."

"I found myself racing along, utterly caught up in the momentum of the story and eager to find out how it would turn out....Mr. Harrison's perceptions are jagged and cutting...a remarkably well-plotted story."

"[If] the bankruptcy of American dreams, and the attempt to struggle for an inner meaning in the midst of chaos have become old hat in American fiction, this novel is nevertheless noteworthy, its characters are real, its language is genuine and poetic, and its themes are aesthetically embodied in, rather than painted onto, its 'Westward' plot. Harrison is a fine writer."

First line

I went back to my room and lolled around naked.

Publisher's note

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 tapedeck for the car, the liquor and the drugs, there was also a case of dynamite.

Annotation

A road novel that follows two post-Vietnam losers travelling across the country with no particular destiny in sight. The unnamed narrator is a twentysomething fisherman who teams up with his buddy Tim (a Vietnam vet) and Tim's girlfriend Sylvia to drive west to the Grand Canyon, where they believe the government is about to build a dam. The trio plans to blow up the dam in an act of civil disobedience.

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