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Bezig met laden... Off to the Side: A Memoir (2002)door Jim Harrison
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. so concentrated, I have to read it in small pieces, but it's sterling. As an account of being a rural kid emerging into some kind of familiarity with his own mind, and with literature, it feels utterly accurate. His reading list, extensive and eccentric, weirdly matches my own. Harrison's honesty about both his vices and his virtues is wonderful. An immensely instructive book. ( ) > Road-movie d’une âme blessée, portrait d’un insoumis égaré dans l’Amérique du profit, De Marquette à Veracruz est aussi un chant d’amour adressé à ce Michigan encore édénique dont Harrison fait entendre le moindre murmure, sous les caresses du vent. Un roman magistral. —André Clavel, L’Express > D’un trait de plume, Jim Harrison métamorphose « Poor Little Jimmy » en véritable personnage de roman. […] Dans sa voix pointe une mélancolie bizarre. Cette mélancolie si fine, infiniment belle, qui électrise tout son récit, En marge, et qu’il nomme « saudade. ». —François Busnel, Lire > Jim Harrison, il vous prend aux tripes. Il vous noue la gorge. Vous auriez bien envie de jouir calmement de sa plume, de ses personnages… mais voilà, un livre de Jim Harrison on ne peut pas s’empêcher de le dévorer. La route du retour, est un monument. —Christine Brulé, Ouest France Dimanche geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Selected as aNew York Times Notable Book of the Year,Off to the Side is the tale of one of America's most beloved writers. Jim Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the Depression and the Second World War, and the seemingly greater austerities of his starchy Swedish forebears. He chronicles his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with books to a young man making his way among fellow writers he deeply admires -- including Peter Matthiessen, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Allen Ginsberg. Harrisondiscusses forthrightly the life-changing experience of becoming a father, and the minor cognitive dissonance that ensued when this boy from the "heartland" somehow ended up a highly paid Hollywood screenwriter. He gives free rein to his "seven obsessions" -- alcohol, food, stripping, hunting and fishing (and the dogs who have accompanied him in both), religion, the road, and our place in the natural world -- which he elucidates with earthy wisdom and an elegant sense of connectedness.Off to the Side is a work of great beauty and importance, a triumphant achievement that captures the writing life and brings all of us clues for living. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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