The True Bones of My Life: Essays on the Fiction of Jim Harrison

by Patrick A. Smith

Book Overview

Jim Harrison's fiction is diverse in its genres, protagonists, and settings: from novel to novella--from comically masculine rogue to the psychically scarred female--from wilderness to city. This study examines the metaphors Harrison uses to offer critical entrance into his fiction--food, place, ecological concerns, journey, "soul history," and region. Harrison's fiction contains the underlying currents of alienation and lost identity, and he uses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870136143
• ISBN13: 9780870136146
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"