New Releases by Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison’s The Theory and Practice of Rivers returns to print as a celebratory, stand-alone volume. In her heartfelt and powerful introduction, Rebecca Solnit calls this collection both an elegy, inspired by the death of Harrison’s teenage niece, and a “loose memoir” teeming with thoughts and images that leap intuitively across subjects, recalling myriad experiences, places, and encounters. A handwritten draft of the title poem, retrieved from Harrison’s extensive literary archive, provides a rare and intimate window into his surging creative process. As Outside magazine puts it, The Theory and Practice of Rivers is filled with “moving water, the search for consolation and meaning in the sublime rightness of wild landscape.” This contemporary classic speaks to the rivers and cascades in all of us, the ceaseless motion by which our lives are determined.

In 1970, Jim Harrison is the age when Christ died and carries the cross of alcoholism and depression. First he lost an eye and then his soul sister and his father, run over by a drunk driver. He is tired of earning his bread teaching literature to posh kids on the East Coast, so he reads Lorca and Rimbaud as if his life depended on each verse and goes fishing in remote places as if that would get him away from himself. Until one day he has an accident in the mountains: he falls off a cliff and shatters his spine. He will have to stay in bed for months and it is not clear if he will ever walk again. It could be the end. Or the beginning. Harrison spent the next two months bedridden and writing day and night on his father''s old Remington. The result was "Wolf," an overwhelming, furious and beautiful novel, at times brutal, and lucid in every line.

Chien Brun, "personnage fétiche que l’on rencontre tout au long de l’œuvre de Jim Harrison", était, pour ainsi dire, un alter ego fantasmé de l’auteur. "Fabulateur, frondeur, sorte de “lord Byron des femmes de petite vertu’’, cet incorrigible anar – qui fait croire qu’il a du sang indien dans les veines – s’ingénie à rouler dans la farine les shérifs et les juges du Michigan, une contrée dont il connaît les moindres ruisseaux. Pas de toit, pas de numéro de Sécurité sociale, “né pour ne pas coopérer avec le monde’’, Chien Brun ne possède qu’une vieille peau d’ours. Et assez d’humanité pour attendrir les lecteurs." André Clavel, Le Temps Jim Harrison a écrit six histoires, entre 1990 et 2013, mettant en scène son célèbre Chien Brun. Les voici réunies pour la première fois en un seul volume, traduit et préfacé par Brice Matthieussent.

The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison''s essays and journalism—some never before published New York Times–bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was a writer with a poet’s economy of style and a trencherman’s appetites. Praised as a “national treasure” (Chicago Tribune) and published in twenty-seven languages, he was one of this country’s most beloved and critically acclaimed authors. Best known for his poetry and fiction such as Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth, Harrison was also a prolific nonfiction writer, with columns running in Sports Illustrated and Esquire, and work in Outside, Field & Stream, and others. The first collection of Harrison’s general nonfiction in thirty years, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive volume of essays and journalism—from the near-classic to the never-published. With his trademark ribald humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, The Search for the Genuine pays tribute to writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and examines the distance between literary reputation and the work itself; he attains something like satori in the field hunting grouse; he reports on Yellowstone for the park’s hundredth anniversary, when he was merely a tourist to the part of Montana he would eventually call home; he takes to the open sea in pursuit of roosterfish, marlin, tarpon, and, once, to observe a scientific mission tagging sharks; he delivers a heartbreaking essay on life—and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more dangerous gaps, death—on the US-Mexico border. Always he comes back to the spirit and to connection with the natural world and the people who sustained him; throughout the book his feeling for the American landscape rings out. Lovingly introduced by acclaimed novelist, poet, and essayist Luis Alberto Urrea, The Search for the Genuine is a feast that captures a lifetime of reading, writing, and living to the fullest, from a true “American original” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Starred Review from Booklist: "This robust volume is a testament to the fortitude of a great American poet''s work... [a] landmark collection." From the Introduction by Terry Tempest Williams: "Jim Harrison...was among the great ones—an elevated soul in all his unruliness who favored his senses and courted the wild on the page and in the world. His was a storied life that loomed large, and we are the beneficiaries. ''Such a powerful wounded poet—wrote as if he had to sing with a cut throat . . . and he did have to sing,'' said Jorie Graham." Jim Harrison: Complete Poems is the definitive collection from one of America’s iconic writers. Introduced by activist and naturalist writer Terry Tempest Williams, this tour de force contains every poem Harrison published over his fifty-year career, as well as a section of previously unpublished "Last Poems." Here are the nature-based lyrics of his early work, the high-velocity ghazals, a harrowing prose-poem “correspondence” with a Russian suicide, the riverine suites, fearless meditations inspired by the Zen monk Crazy Cloud, and a joyous conversation in haiku-like gems with friend and fellow poet Ted Kooser. Weaving throughout these 1000 pages are Harrison’s legendary passions and appetites, his love songs and lamentations, and a clarion call to pay attention to the life you are actually living. Jim Harrison: Complete Poems confirms that Jim Harrison is a talented storyteller with a penetrating eye for details, or as Publishers Weeklycalled him, “an untrammeled renegade genius... a poet talking to you instead of around himself, while doing absolutely brilliant and outrageous things with language.” NOTE:Jim Harrison: Complete Poems also appears as a three-volume box set. Print run limited to 750 copies. Each volume is introduced by a different writer: Colum McCann, Joy Williams, and John Freeman. The box set retails for $85 and ISBN is 9781556596414.

Le thème de « la recherche de l’authentique » résume à lui seul le projet littéraire commun à toute l’œuvre de Jim Harrison. Dans ce recueil de textes, inédits pour certains, écrits pour divers journaux et magazines au cours des cinquante dernières années, l’auteur de Dalva, Légendes d’automne et Un bon jour pour mourir parle avec une verve inégalée du bonheur et de la fragilité d’exister. Tout devient littérature sous sa plume acérée, éblouissante d’intelligence et d’humour. Qu’il tourne les pages de son enfance, évoque une mémorable partie de pêche ou de chasse, confesse son admiration pour Neruda, Steinbeck, Bukowski, ou sa crainte de voir les États-Unis transformés en « Disneyland fasciste », il livre un autoportrait saisissant et sans complaisance. L’occasion pour lui de nous ouvrir les yeux sur ce précieux viatique qui a guidé sa vie face aux imposteurs de tout poil : être vrai, trouver au fond de soi le chemin de la « frêle passerelle entre ne rien attendre et tout désirer ».

Trois novellas. Plusieurs voix : désabusées, conquérantes ou gloutonnes, à l''image même d''Harrison. Chien Brun, d''abord, l''Indien bambocheur du Michigan, qui va devoir composer entre détresse charnelle et blessures de l''âme. La faute à qui ? Trois épouses républicaines très BCBG prêtes à en découdre... Last but not least, Big Jim lui-même, dans une variation autobiographique émouvante et poétique. " L''été où il faillit mourir met en scène trois univers totalement différents, dont l''un, Épouses républicaines, est la preuve que Jim Harrison est capable de tout, même d''être une femme ! Totalement enthousiasmant. " Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle

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Dans ce roman choral où s''entrecroisent les parcours de Dalva et de ses proches, Jim Harrison exorcise sa hantise de la mort et brasse l''histoire de l''Amérique, depuis les guerres indiennes jusqu''à nos jours. Derrière cette fresque truculente et nostalgique, La Route du retour témoigne de l''amour de Big Jim pour ce pays aux horizons aussi grands que ses mythes. " La Route du retour est un pur chef-d''œuvre. Ambitieux, foudroyant. " Lire, Catherine Argand

The celebrated author of Legends of the Fall delivers "three novellas as dark as they are exuberant" and linked by the lyrics of Patsy Cline ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). The three stories in The Farmer''s Daughter are as different as they are unforgettable. Written in the voice of a home-schooled fifteen-year-old girl in rural Montana, the title novella introduces an extraordinary character who must draw on her untapped strength and resilience when she encounters unexpected brutality. In another, Harrison''s beloved recurring character Brown Dog, still looking for love, escapes from Canada back to the States on the tour bus of an Indian rock band called Thunderskins. And finally, a retired werewolf, misdiagnosed with a rare blood disorder brought on by the bite of a Mexican hummingbird, attempts to lead a normal life but is nevertheless plagued by hazy, feverish episodes of epic lust, physical appetite, athletic exertions, and outbursts of violence under the full moon. The Farmer''s Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives. With wit, poignancy, and an unbounded love for his characters, "Harrison shows he is still at the top of his game with these compressed gems. Taken together, they present another fine accomplishment in a storied career" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). "Readers with a fondness for Hemingway''s Michigan stories or Cormac McCarthy''s spare regional novels will also find these tales much to their liking. Highly recommended." —Donna Bettencourt, Library Journal (starred review)

Instituteur dans une bourgade rurale du Nord-Michigan, Joseph coule des jours tranquilles dans la ferme de ses parents. Entre la chasse et la pêche, il partage ses nuits avec Rosalee, l''amie d''enfance, l''éternelle fiancée. Quand survient Catherine, une de ses élèves, âgée de dix-sept ans et très affranchie, déterminée à bouleverser le cours des choses... Sur un thème presque banal, Harrison a composé le plus simple mais aussi le plus beau de tous ses romans. traduit de l''anglais (Etats-Unis) par Sara Oudin

Cuites, amour et dynamite, un amateur de pêche mélancolique, un ancien du Viêt-Nam et une jeune femme aux jambes interminables traversent l''Amérique des années soixante, unis par une " mission " folle et héroïque : faire sauter un barrage du Grand Canyon. Mais l''équipée sauvage de cet improbable trio va bientôt tourner à la gueule de bois carabinée ! " Véritable cow-boy de l''écriture, Jim Harrison nous arrive comme un don Quichotte d''outre-Atlantique qui réintroduit le plaisir d''une lecture simple mais fulgurante. " Le Monde Traduit de l''anglais (Etats-Unis) par Sara Oudin

An essay collection from "the Henry Miller of food writing" and New York Times–bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked ( The Wall Street Journal). Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food pieces for the first time, A Really Big Lunch "brings him roaring to the page again in all his unapologetic immoderacy, with spicy bon mots and salty language augmented by family photographs" (NPR). From the titular New Yorker article about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to essays on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison''s aperçus and delight in the pleasures of the senses. Between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison''s life over the last three decades. Including articles that first appeared in Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, and more, as well as an introduction by Mario Batali, A Really Big Lunch offers "sage and succulent essays" for the literary gourmand ( Shelf Awareness, starred review).

In three novellas, Jim Harrison takes us on an American journey as he leads us through the wondrous landscape of the human heart. In this "richly allusive and wickedly funny" collection, Jim Harrison offers "three delightful studies of unique individuals battling inventively against society''s demands for conformity" ( Library Journal). Julip follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail—he shot three of her former lovers below the belt. The Seven-Ounce Man continues the picaresque adventures of Brown Dog, a Michigan scoundrel who loves to eat, drink, and chase women, all while sailing along in the bottom 10 percent. The Beige Dolorosa is the haunting tale of an academic who, recovering from the repercussions of a sexual harassment scandal, turns to the natural world for solace. In each of these stories, the irresistible pull of nature becomes a magnificent backdrop for exploring the toughest questions about life and love.

An unforgettable collection of novellas from the author of Legends of the Fall explores the line between civilization and the "wild men." 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. "Harrison''s intricate symbolism and scathing observations of urban foibles, his sly humor and vibrant language remind readers that he is one of our most talented chroniclers of the masculine psyche, intellectual or not." — Publishers Weekly

Tous les lecteurs de Jim Harrison connaissent son appétit vorace pour la bonne chère, les meilleurs vins et autres plaisirs bien terrestres qui irriguent son œuvre. Grâce à ce Sacré gueuleton, même les plus fidèles d’entre eux seront surpris de découvrir l’étendue de ses écrits sur le sujet. Rassemblés pour la première fois en un seul volume, ces articles publiés au fil de sa carrière ne se contentent pas de célébrer les plaisirs de la table. Savoureux quand il croque les travers comparés des critiques littéraires et des experts œnologues, féroce quand il brocarde l’affadissement du goût et la nourriture industrielle, Big Jim parle de gastronomie avec la même verve que lorsqu’il évoque la littérature, la politique, l’amour des femmes ou l’amour tout court. En chemin, il déroule des recettes toujours réjouissantes, parfois inattendues, et fait preuve d’un humour dévastateur à l’égard des pisse-vinaigres de tout poil. Parents, amis, écrivains, hommes politiques et personnages de roman se croisent au fil des pages pour composer un autoportrait du gourmand vagabond, une biographie en creux de l’auteur de Dalva, de Légendes d’automne et du Vieux Saltimbanque. Ce livre est un véritable festin littéraire qui comblera tous les appétits.

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Legends of the Fall: "Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold" ( Tim McNulty, The Seattle Times ). "It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn''t." With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that sends a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America. Cliff is armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds, the latter of which have been unjustly saddled with white men''s banal monikers up until now. His adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high-school-teacher days twenty-some years before, to a "snake farm" in Arizona owned by an old classmate, and to the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer who has just bought an apartment over the Presidio in San Francisco. Jim Harrison''s riotous and moving cross-country novel, The English Major, is the map of a man''s journey into, and out of, himself. It is vintage Harrison—reflective, big-picture American, and replete with wicked wit. " The English Major is to midlife crisis what The Catcher in the Rye is to adolescence." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

A cornucopia of culinary essays from "the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious" (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, The Wall Street Journal). Jim Harrison was one of this country''s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he also wrote some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius—one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills his experiences into passionate, opinionated prose. Food, in this context, is more than food: It is a metaphor for life." From Harrison''s legendary Smart and Esquire columns, to current works including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle, fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men''s Journal, and a paean to the humble meatball, The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite. "[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah." —Jane and Michael Stern, The New York Times Book Review

Three novellas by the author of Legends of the Fall. "A brilliant tour de force . . . Jim Harrison at his peak: comic, erotic, and insightful" ( San Francisco Chronicle). Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren''t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected bounty. A band of sixties radicals, now approaching middle age, reunite to free an old comrade from a Mexican jail. A fifty-year-old suburban housewife flees quietly from her abusive businessman husband at a highway rest stop, climbs a fence, and explores the bittersweet pageant of the preceding years within the sanctuary of an Iowa cornfield. The Woman Lit by Fireflies is the work of a classic writer at the very top of his form—a hard-living, hard-writing hero of American letters whose novellas comprise a sweeping tribute to the nation''s heartland and the colorful, courageous characters who inhabit it. "Funny, wild, sexy, and bizarre . . . Along with Richard Ford . . . Harrison has cornered the market in the tough-but-tender style that characterized Hemingway''s early work." —Nick Hornby

BrainFishing is the “missing link”, the hands-on, practical guide for professionals looking to forge better agreements and build stronger relationships in difficult and challenging situations. It is the one, slim book that will complete your professional bookshelf. Designed for anyone who manages, sells, coaches, negotiates, resolves conflict or needs to influence other people, BrainFishing will help you understand and apply questioning skills in new, effective, and creative ways. Filled with examples, stories and exercises to help you put the skills and tools to work immediately, BrainFishing will help change your relationships from the ground up. And there’s the neuroscience behind it all, too!

A spirited collection of poems inspired by the Zen practice of one of America''s most celebrated authors, Jim Harrison, a New York Times best-selling author. The popular novels of Jim Harrison (1937–2016) represent only part of his literary output—he was also widely acclaimed for the “renegade genius” of his powerful, expressive poems. After Ikkyū is the first collection of Harrison’s poetry directly inspired by his many years of Zen practice. The writing here is at once thought-provoking and passionate, immortalizing a celebrated American writer’s relationship to Zen in beautiful verse. These short, spirited poems will inspire you to look at life differently with a newfound sense of wonder and gratitude for everyday moments.

The story of how a summer job spawned a long and rewarding career as an artist Coca-Cola is a true American original and one of the world''s most recognized and popular American products. In The Coca-Cola Art of Jim Harrison, the artist traces his lifelong love affair with the Coca-Cola trademark that began during his childhood in rural South Carolina. Harrison enjoyed drinking the sweet and effervescent beverage, but he also was attracted to the Coca-Cola trademark that was blazoned on buildings and signs in his home town. After years of marveling at the work of local sign painter J. J. Cornforth, Harrison approached the seventy-year-old for a summer job. During several summers Cornforth taught Harrison the craft. When the young artist climbed atop the scaffold in the summer of 1952 to paint his first Coca-Cola sign, little did he know that he was launching a career as one of America''s foremost landscape artists. In 1975 Harrison created a painting of a country store that featured a fading Coca-Cola sign he and Cornforth had painted twenty years earlier. The painting, titled "Disappearing America," was offered as one of the first limited-edition Coca-Cola collector prints for $40 by Frame House Gallery. All 1,500 copies sold out quickly, propelling him into the national spotlight through the publisher''s network of 600 dealers. Harrison soon became the undisputed leader in rural Americana art, with this and many of his other prints appreciating up to 3,000 percent of their original value. Since entering into a licensee relationship with the Coca-Cola Company in 1995, Harrison has continued developing limited-edition prints, including his popular annual Coca-Cola calendar. Not surprisingly, Harrison has become an avid collector of old Coca-Cola signs. His studio is lined with a vast array of this collection, which serves as inspiration for new works of art.

Dans ce dernier livre publié moins d’un mois avant sa mort, Jim Harrison a choisi de poursuivre ses mémoires sous la forme d''un texte à la troisième personne pour « échapper à l''illusion de réalité propre à l’autobiographie ». Souvenirs d''enfance, découverte de la poésie, mariage, amour de la nature, célébration des plaisirs de la chair et de la table, alcools et paradis artificiels, Jim Harrison tisse le roman d’une vie. Véritable testament littéraire, Le Vieux Saltimbanque est à l’image de Big Jim : plus libre et provocateur que jamais, plus touchant aussi, en marge de toutes les conventions.

"Harrison''s poems succeed on the basis of an open heart and a still-ravenous appetite for life."—The Texas Observer The title Dead Man''s Float is inspired by a technique used by swimmers to conserve energy when exhausted, to rest up for the long swim to shore. In his fourteenth volume of poetry, Jim Harrison presents keen awareness of physical pains, delights in the natural world, and reflects on humanity''s tentative place in a universe filled with ninety billion galaxies. By turns mournful and celebratory, these fearless and exuberant poems accomplish what Harrison''s poems always do: wake us up to the possibilities of being fully alive. "Forthright and unaffected, even brash, Harrison always scoops us straight into the world whether writing fiction or nonfiction. This new collection [Dead Man''s Float] takes its cue from a technique swimmers use to conserve energy in deep water, and Harrison goes in deep, acknowledging our frailness even as he seamlessly connects with a world that moves from water to air to the sky beyond."—Library Journal “Harrison pours himself into everything he writes… in poems, you do meet Harrison head-on. As he navigates his seventies, he continues to marvel with succinct awe and earthy lyricism over the wonders of birds, dogs, and stars as he pays haunting homage to his dead and contends with age’s assaults. The sagely mischievous poet of the North Woods and the Arizona desert laughs at himself as he tries to relax by imagining that he’s doing the dead man’s float only to sink into troubling memories…Bracingly candid, gracefully elegiac, tough, and passionate, Harrison travels the deep river of the spirit, from the wailing precincts of a hospital to a “green glade of soft marsh grass near a pool in a creek” to the moon-bright sea.”—Donna Seaman, Booklist "Harrison doesn''t write like anyone else, relying entirely on the toughness of his vision and intensity of feeling."—Publishers Weekly Warbler This year we have two gorgeous yellow warblers nesting in the honeysuckle bush. The other day I stuck my head in the bush. The nestlings weigh one twentieth of an ounce, about the size of a honeybee. We stared at each other, startled by our existence. In a month or so, when they reach the size of bumblebees they''ll fly to Costa Rica without a map. Jim Harrison, one of America''s most versatile and celebrated writers, is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—including Legends of the Fall, the acclaimed trilogy of novellas. With a fondness for open space and anonymous thickets, he divides his time between Montana and southern Arizona.

“A sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life.” —Richard Brautigan In Farmer, Jim Harrison tells the story of Joseph, a forty-three-year-old farmer-schoolteacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers one a tantalizing young student, the other his beautiful childhood friend he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or finally seek the wider, more worldly horizons he has avoided all his life. Farmer is a wondrous blend of insight, storytelling, and the author’s uncanny ability to evoke the mysteries and beauties of the natural world. “A beautiful novel”, Farmer serves as the perfect introduction to Harrison’s remarkable insight, storytelling, and evocation of the natural world (The Boston Globe). “A quiet triumph . . . Yes, it is the old story again. Taking it and making it new, as Harrison has done, is a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes. But then so are all good novels.” —The Washington Post

Jim Harrison’s first novel—a walk on the wild side from “a force of nature in American letters” (The Seattle Times). The New York Times–bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry—including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth—Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. Praised as “a raunchy, funny, swaggering, angry, cocksure book,” Wolf tells the story of a man who abandons Manhattan after too many nameless women and drunken nights, to roam the wilderness of northern Michigan, hoping to catch a glimpse of one of the rare wolves that prowl that territory (The New York Times Book Review). “When you turn the last page and Swanson’s voice stops, you want to flip back and keep listening.” —The Examiner

A collection of novellas from the New York Times–bestselling author—“arguably America’s foremost master of the novella . . . A force of nature on the page” (The Washington Post). The Mark Twain Award–winning author of Legends of the Fall 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 fun with his own reputation in the title novella, about an aging writer in Montana who 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 follows soon after. In Eggs, a Montana woman reminisces about collecting eggs at her grandparents’ country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so. And in The Case of the Howling Buddhas, retired Detective Sunderson—a recurring character from Harrison’s New York Times bestseller The Great Leader and The Big Seven—is hired to investigate a bizarre cult that achieves satori by howling along with howler monkeys at the zoo. “Still independent, fierce and feral,” The Ancient Minstrel confirms Jim Harrison as one of the most cherished and important writers in modern America (David Gates, The New York Times).

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Great Leader and Legends of the Fall: a retired detective confronts the sins of man in rural Michigan. In The Great Leader, Mark Twain Award–winning author Jim Harrison introduced readers to the hard-drinking, nearly-retired Detective Sunderson. In this darkly comic follow-up, Sunderson takes stock of his past, while his outlaw neighbors bring new havoc to his doorstep. To flee his troubles, Detective Sunderson buys a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. But with neighbors like the Ames family, there is no peace to be found. Armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson’s cleaning lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sunderson’s advice on a crime novel he’s writing which may not be fiction. In a story shot through with wit, bedlam, and Sunderson’s contemplation of the seven deadly sins, The Big Seven is a superb reminder of why Jim Harrison is “one of the finest writers of the past half-century” (The Washington Times).

This IBM® Redbooks® publication focuses on developing Web service applications in IBM CICS®. It takes the broad view of developing and modernizing CICS applications for XML, Web services, SOAP, and SOA support, and lays out a reference architecture for developing these kinds of applications. We start by discussing Web services in general, then review how CICS implements Web services. We offer an overview of different development approaches: bottom-up, top-down, and meet-in-the-middle. We then look at how you would go about exposing a CICS application as a Web service provider, again looking at the different approaches. The book then steps through the process of creating a CICS Web service requester. We follow this by looking at CICS application aggregation (including 3270 applications) with IBM Rational® Application Developer for IBM System z® and how to implement CICS Web Services using CICS Cloud technology. The first part is concluded with hints and tips to help you when implementing this technology. Part two of this publication provides performance figures for a basic Web service. We investigate some common variables and examine their effects on the performance of CICS as both a requester and provider of Web services.