The Ancient Minstrel: Novellas (The Ancient Minstrel; Eggs; The Case of the Howling Buddhas)

✍ Scribed by Harrison, Jim

• Book ID: 109040613
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 453 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780802124562

✦ 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 bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. In The Ancient Minstrel , Harrison delivers three novellas that highlight his phenomenal range as a writer, shot through with his trademark wit and keen insight into the human condition
Harrison has tremendous fun with his own reputation in the title novella, about an aging writer in Montana who spars with his estranged wife, with whom he still shares a home, weathers the slings and arrows of literary success, and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim and the unplanned litter of piglets that follow soon after. In Eggs , a Montana woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents, and...