Most Popular Books by Jim Harrison

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

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).

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)

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).

Two novellas provide insight into the human condition as a sixty-year-old art history academic embarks on an unexpected journey of discovery and a young farm boy is drawn to the water of Lake Michigan as an escape.

Get your Web security, network perimeter security, and application layer security gateway up and running smoothly. This indispensible, single-volume reference details the features and capabilities of Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG). You''ll gain the real-world insights, implementation and configuration best practices, and management practices you need for on-the-job results. Discover how to: Implement TMG integrated security features Analyze your Web and perimeter security requirements and infrastructure Plan, install, and configure TMG Implement network intrusion prevention, proxy, caching, filtering Configure security for the Web, Microsoft Exchange Server, and SharePoint Products and Technologies Implement remote access and site-to-site VPNs Select and configure clients Monitor and troubleshoot protected systems with Network Monitor 3 and other tools Use scripting to configure systems and automate administration Plus, get a fully searchable eBook on the companion CD For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

IBM® CICS® is a mixed language application server that runs on IBM Z®. Over the 50 years since CICS was introduced in 1969, enterprises have used the qualities of service (QoSs) that CICS provides to allow them to create high throughput and secure transactional applications that have powered their business. As the IT landscape has evolved, so has CICS to allow these applications to integrate with new platforms and still provide value to the rest of the business. Because of this capability, many businesses still rely on CICS to power their core applications. This IBM Redpaper publication focuses on modernizing these CICS applications, allowing them to integrate with cloud-native applications. This modernization can be achieved either by constructing application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow new cloud-native applications to connect to your existing assets, rewriting parts of your application in newer languages and hosting them back on CICS, or by using CICS capabilities to extend your applications to provide new capabilities and functions. The paper takes a traditional example application and shows you how it works. Then, the paper extends the example, rewrites portions of its functions, and enables its APIs. It also explains how CICS applications can use continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) to deliver, test, and deploy code into CICS easily and with quality.

Plaqué par sa femme à soixante-deux ans, Cliff quitte tout et prend la route. II traverse les Etats-Unis de part en part, bientôt rejoint par la peu farouche Marybelle. Parfois mélancolique, toujours truculent, ce voyage lui apportera-t-il la renaissance tant recherchée ?

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!

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.

The Gilt-Edged Market is specifically aimed at finance professionals and investors who need to understand the inner working of the United Kingdom gilt market. There is detailed coverage of the different gilt instruments, as well as a look at the structures, institutions and practices of the market itself.Topics include:* Bond basics* Conventional gilts* Index-linked gilts* Gilt strips* The gilt repo market* The gilt bond future basis* Yield spread trading using giltsThere are also personal reminiscenes that illustrate the great changes that have occurred in this market since Big Bang, as well as an exposition on the art of trading.The Gilt-Edged Market is ideal reading for traders, salespersons, fund managers, private investors and other professionals involved to any extent in the UK gilt market.* The latest research on index-linked gilts, gilt markets and sterling debt markets presented in an enthusiastic, readable style* Written by gilt-edged market makers and dealers to ensure realistic, practical coverage as well as a clear explanation of the theory, so readers gain from years'' experience* Foreword written by Mike Williams, CEO of the Debt Management Office

Dalvas Suche nach ihrem verschollenen Sohn, dem Kind ihrer ersten Liebe in einem fernen Sommer.

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.

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.

Sur le point de prendre sa retraite au terme d’une longue carrière dans la police du Michigan, l’inspecteur Sunderson enquête sur une secte hédoniste qui a pris ses quartiers à quelques kilomètres de chez lui. Simple hurluberlu inoffensif au premier abord, le gourou se fait appeler Grand Maître. Au fil de leurs recherches Sunderson et son improbable acolyte de seize ans, Mona, découvrent un personnage bien plus sinistre qu’il n’y paraît. Lui-même poursuivi par ses propres démons, imbibé d’alcool et obsédé par les femmes, Sunderson traque sa proie des bois du Michigan jusqu’à une petite ville d’Arizona qui fourmille de criminels transfrontaliers avant d’atterrir dans le Nebraska, où les adeptes du Grand Maître espèrent s’établir pour de bon. Un chef-d’œuvre tragicomique, étincelant d’humour et de désespoir.

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 ».

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.

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

In the wilds of Michigan''s Upper Peninsula, Robert Corvus Strang is crawling through the woods. A beautiful Costa Rican woman is dancing in a string bikini, and a dissipated writer is trying to stay on his feet....All three have retreated to this isolated land--where Strang, builder of dams and bridges, preacher of gospels, lover of women, explorer of limits, launches into the story of his monumental life. In a novel that stretches from Michigan to Africa and the Amazon, Strang leads his listeners across rivers of time, through the nature of innocence, politics and desire, to a final and stunning defiance of life''s frailty.

Instituteur dans une bourgade rurale du Nord-Michigan, Joseph, 43 ans, coule des jours tranquilles dans la ferme de ses parents. Entre la chasse et la pêche - qu''il préfère à la compagnie d''autres humains -, il partage ses nuits avec Rosalee, l''amie d''enfance, l''éternelle fiancée. Survient alors Catherine, une de ses élèves, âgée de dix-sept ans et très affranchie, déterminée à bouleverser le cours des choses...

Ce roman, sans doute le plus ambitieux et le plus impressionnant de Jim Harrison, reprend certains thèmes et la plupart des personnages rencontrés dans Dalva. Composé de trois parties, qui sont autant de journaux intimes, c''est une grande fiction américiane où, comme dans Dalva, se mêlent les genres épique, lyrique et dramatique pour former une vaste fresque à la fois poétique et réaliste, truculente et nostalgique, brassant l''histoire de l''Amérique, depuis les guerres indiennes et les massacres qu''on sait, jusqu''à nos jours. Jamais sans doute Jim Harrisson n''a aussi bien évoqué ce mélange de profane absolu et de visions sacrées qui constitue selon lui l''existence. Jamais il n''a créé avec autant de verve et de sensibilité, de puissance et de finesse, des personnages plus grands que nature.

Dans cette luxuriante autobiographie, Jim Harrison commence par le récit de son enfance. Mais plutôt que d''en distiller les détails, le grand romancier américain en retient surtout les images intenses, celles imprégnées de nourritures délicieuses, de feuilles fraîches et de bruits de rivière, car seule " la sensualité marque la mémoire ". Dès lors, l''écriture déroule un formidable et gargantuesque appétit pour la vie, mais aussi une mélancolie profonde dont Jim Harrison, comme tout hédoniste, n''est pas exempt. Mais le plus extraordinaire est encore dans cette folle déclaration d''amour adressée à la littérature. En marge, dans le fond, n''est traversé que par un seul récit celui d''une vie vouée à l''écriture. " Des coups de blues, des parties de rigolade des plages de solitude, l''amitié, tels sont les ingrédients mélangés dans ce cocktail à boire cul sec : attention, il est très fort. A consommer sans modération. "

Les romans de Harrison font entrevoir en chacun de nous l''ombre portée du criminel, du tricheur et du saint. Au surplus, le style est à lui seul un chef-d''œuvre, une leçon pour les auteurs français plus habiles à sodomiser les mouches de la ponctuation, à sacraliser les arguties qu''à livrer une inspiration urgente. Le roman, pour Harrison, c''est la religion du délire. Il enivre les mots, les soûle à mort ; il écrit à tue-tête et bâtit des phrases où se devinent encore les ahans et les suées. Jim Harrison est un écrivain passionné, donc il nous passionne ! Yann Queffelec Le Nouvel Observateur (1981)