num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Beast God Forgot to Invent: Novellas
titlecomplete: The Beast God Forgot to Invent: Novellas
genres: Collections, Fiction, Short Stories, Literature, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 1082
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
category: Fiction - General
publisher: Grove Press