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- Publisher: Transition Vendor
- ISBN: 0802138365
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100183903
- Release Date: September 18, 2001
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #217738 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #26204 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #4165 in General (See Top 100 General Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Beast God Forgot to Invent" by Jim Harrison to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Beast God Forgot to Invent"Browse more products related to "Jim Harrison"Review"This is lifestyle fiction not so different from Judith Krantz's...: the main character-narrators here spend a surprising amount of time thinking about yearly income, first-class airplane seats, net worth, and assistants. And food. What they think about, overwhelmingly, is food. Meant to be Falstaffian sensualists, they more often seem like simple gluttons....We have here a writer...satisfied with himself and his middle-aged achievements of taste....Harrison isn't even bothering to support the pretense of writing from within his characters; he's writing instead from somewhere in their neighborhood, a lower-rent one than he may realize, one of too-cute tonal shifts and self-satisfied aphorisms." "There are many...ingredients to this ragout, notably romantic elements... and social criticism, along with a litany of references to wine, food, and literature...." "The quality of Harrison's food and sex writing (his two major preoccupations) hasn't diminished a bit....What makes these novellas darker and more emotionally complicated than Harrison's earlier work is a strong whiff of mortality....[There] are minor sins. What wins you over in the end is the big, wet, sloppy kiss Harrison continues to plant on the face of life itself." "[T]he collection's final entry, "I Forgot to Go to Spain," glows brighter than even [the volume's other] two novellas combined....The novella all but boils over with dreams--dreams of literature, love, loss, of all those epic L-words that too few writers seem brave enough, in these chilly times, to address on anything but ironic terms. [It] is imbued with all the gravelly melancholy of a Tom Waits ballad, but it never once, despite that swarm of L-words, forces sentiment; the autumnal passion that drives the tale is never less than tactile. I could go on--about the casual lack of geometry and astounding texture of Harrison's prose, about the delicacy of his characterizations--but why? "I Forgot to Go to Spain" is above my twerpy praise. It's simply thrilling to see a writer reach for the sky and actually grab it." Publisher's noteA new collection of novellas from the author of Legends of the Fall and The Woman Lit by Fireflies explores the line between civilization and the "wild men." Reprint. AnnotationIn these three novellas--Jim Harrison's fourth collection of this short form--an elderly man takes care of a younger one who is brain-dead (the title novella), a Native American in Michigan works as the chauffeur for a drunken screenwriter ("Westward Ho"), and a biographer has dinner with a woman he was once married to for nine days ("I Forgot to Go to Spain"). A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. If You Enjoy "The Beast God Forgot to Invent (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Beast God Forgot to Invent (Paperback)" by Jim Harrison (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fiction & Literature Bestselling Books
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