"On call at Medford Emergency Animal Hospital, I, Doctor Kallie Collins, receive a curious request from the sheriff's department. I'm to meet with a detective at a small ranch outside of town. You see, there's this dog with a bone he's not willing to part with. On scene, the dog tells me the bone is
Brown Dog
โ Scribed by Jim Harrison
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.;Grove Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 698 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times on The River Swimmer
New York Times best-selling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog, a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian, has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance. For the first time, Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never-published one, into one volume--the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's irresistible Everyman.
In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior's cold waters; overindulges in food, drink, and women while just scraping by in Michigan's Upper Peninsula; wanders Los Angeles in search of an ersatz Native activist who stole his bearskin; adopts two...
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