True North by Jim Harrison

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Jim Harrison
• Title: True North
• Publisher: ‎ Grove Press; First Edition (April 8, 2004)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 388 pages‏
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0802117732
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0802117731
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.40 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.4 x 1.3 x 9.3 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. May show signs of minor discoloration on page edges). 
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (Mylar Library Dust Jacket)
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, and his own father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots.

The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up with a father who is a malevolent force and a mother made vague and numb by alcohol and pills. He and his sister Cynthia, a firecracker who scandalizes the family at fourteen by taking up with the son of their Finnish-Native American gardener, are mostly left to make their own way. As David comes to adulthood-often guided and enlightened by the unforgettable, intractable, courageous women he loves-he realizes he must come to terms with his forefathers' rapacious destruction of the woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, as well as the working people who made their wealth possible.

Jim Harrison has given us a family tragedy of betrayal, amends, and justice for the worst sins. True North is a bravura performance from one of our finest writers, accomplished with deep humanity, humor, and redemptive soul.

About the Author:

Jim Harrison (1937 – 2016), one of America's most versatile and celebrated writers, was the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction–including Legends of the Fall, the acclaimed trilogy of novellas, and The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems.

His books have been translated into two dozen languages, and in 2007 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. With a fondness for open space and anonymous thickets, he divided his time between Montana and southern Arizona.