The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 -- Jim Harrison

<p><b>The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, <i>The Search for the Genuine</i> is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison's essays and journalism--some never before published</b></p> <p/><p><i>New York Times-</i>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" (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>) 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 <i>Legends of the Fall</i>, <i>Dalva</i>, and <i>Returning to Earth</i>, Harrison was also a prolific nonfiction writer, with columns running in <i>Sports Illustrated</i> and <i>Esquire</i>, and work in <i>Outside</i>, <i>Field & Stream</i>, and others. The first collection of Harrison's general nonfiction in thirty years, <i>The Search for the Genuine</i> is a sparkling, definitive volume of essays and journalism--from the near-classic to the never-published.</p> <p/><p>With his trademark ribald humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, <i>The Search for the Genuine </i>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