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"Touching....Showcases the ability to get inside women's heads that's always distinguished Harrison from his muy macho peers... [An] emotionally truthful self-portrait."--Kirkus Reviews

"Somewhere in that big literary acreage staked out by Thoreau, Hemingway, and Hunter Thompson is a chunk of space for Jim Harrison."--Playboy

"Harrison's command of the novella form is as impressive as the range of his voices....this set of short fictions shifts pitch-perfect perspectives effortlessly, with a lightness that belies its depth."--Publishers Weekly

"Harrison's earthy prose, uniquely evocative of place, is economical, precise, and hearty, and is sometimes startling in its ability to touch on core truths."--Booklist

Celebrated author Jim Harrison, whose robust, tender, and deeply felt books have made their mark on the American literary landscape, here delivers a collection of three novellas infused with all the wisdom and generous spirit that his readers have come to expect.

In the title novella, "The Summer He Didn't Die", Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren on meager resources. It helps that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town.

"Republican Wives" is a riotous satire on the sexual neuroses of the political right and the irrational nature of love--which, when thwarted, can turn into an urge to murder.

"Tracking" tells the author's life story through a retracing of the places and settings that have marked it.