"The true bones of my life" : essays on the fiction of Jim Harrison / Patrick A. Smith.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Harrison, Jim, 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Michigan -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: "...no woods to travel far back into" : last great places in Jim Harrison's Wolf: a false memoir; title: "Thoreau only pretended to loaf" : philosophies of conservation in Jim Harrison's A good day to die and Sundog; title: "...the Orient was totally out of the question" : conflict, place, and the regional novel in Jim Harrison's Farmer; title: "...to eat well and not die from it" : the dubious art of consumption in Jim Harrison's Warlock; title: "To what degree are these people dead?" : the weight of history and the care of the soul in Jim Harrison's Dalva and The road home; title: "They headed west" : postmodernism, Twain, and a reassessment of the American myth and the American dream in Jim Harrison's Brown dog series; title: "Whose myth is it, anyway?" : the evolution of the myth-figure in Jim Harrison's novellas.