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- Autor: Jim Harrison
- 2018, 400 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Grove Press
- ISBN-10: 1555846513
- ISBN-13: 9781555846510
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2018
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“True North is full-meal Harrison, weaving together philosophy, religion, sex, sensuality, a love of animals, poetry and food, and an elegiac appreciation for the natural world. . . . The many pleasures embedded within make True North another necessary installment in the work of one of the finest writers working today.” —Mary Ann Gwinn, The Seattle Times“Harrison consistently commands our attention for his humanity and his tenderness. That he can create such tension in the process—a tension not released until the last page—and in the end forge such violence shows his skill as a storyteller and makes True North a great achievement.” —Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times Book Review
“There is no denying the urgency of Harrison’s storytelling, or his passionate involvement in the fate of his embattled hero. . . . In [Harrison’s] portrait of a father and a son he has made an indelible addition to the gallery of literature’s ‘bad dads.’” —Anthony Quinn, The New York Times Book Review
“True North is shot through with themes that relate to the question of manliness and the natural world, and in many ways the novel is an extended meditation on the nature of maleness itself. . . . True North becomes a story of dissolution and cohesion, within a family, within the larger community, within the single mind of its narrator. Layered in sections titled “1960s,” “1970s” and “1980s,” the narrative is stratified rather than linear, allowing it to deepen gradually rather than rely on incident following incident to draw the story along.” —Art Winslow, Chicago Tribune
“The genius of Mr. Harrison, it seems to me, is that his characters possess a uniquely human and endearing clumsiness as well as a gracefulness in the way they inhabit the sharp and
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sometimes exuberantly felt physical world and the restless (though also at times exuberant) realm of spirit. True North, with its tensions, tenderness, wisdom, violence and salvation, is a truly American novel. There is grace and redemption—sometimes earned, other times merely bestowed or observed—on every page.” —Rick Bass, The Dallas Morning News
“[True North] is a provocative tale that explores the roots of wealth and privilege in America and examines the troubled legacy of our 19th-century attitudes toward the land. . . . Harrison’s writing is superb, as always, rippling with thematic leaps and poetic insights.” —Tim McNulty, The Oregonian
“Watery landscapes and riparian light are constants in [Harrison’s] books. His descriptions of flora and fauna stand at the head of the line of American writers. True North is no exception. When Harrison writes about a blizzard, you shiver. When he describes a thunderstorm, you see lightning. And when writing about fishing, the author is at his most poetic.” —Stephen J. Lyons, San Francisco Chronicle
“Harrison combines a love of nature and life in the wild, which he describes in splendid, soaring prose, with a rich and troubled conscience tortured by the ambiguities of modern life. . . . [Harrison] bursts through with splashes of true brilliance.” —Dan Goddard, The Plain Dealer
“As always, Harrison manages to reward readers with poetic insights that transcend the characters and the story” —Terry Fiedler, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“From the brutal and gripping prologue, where the father’s hands have been severed at the wrist, through Burkett’s chronicles, his father’s misdeeds propel Burkett into the woods or across international boundaries to unearth secrets. This human story of a son’s attempt to understand a parent’s cruelty is [a] deftly told tale.” —Gail Louise Siegel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“The scheme here isn’t man against nature; it is man into nature, and it is this scheme that brings the book . . . its keenest pleasures. . . . The land is beautifully, lovingly described, the writing rich with impeccable detail and the lore of the woods. . . . A worthy addition to the great [Harrison’s] work, and shows a writer, who, while comfortable with his themes, places and people, is not complacent in them. . . . Harrison is still pushing himself, and his characters, to inhabit the mysteries of the worlds they live in.” —Murray Farish, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Harrison can carry the reader into the Michigan wilderness with such vivid passages that they could serve a tourist better than memory. It’s not enough to say that reading Harrison is like visiting a place. It is like knowing a place.” —Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald
“[Harrison] is an accomplished and worthy writer who has written . . . in styles variously earnest and comic, and in lyrical prose at once tough and insightfully tender, but always cogently and entertainingly written, encompassing or touching upon such issues as greed, revenge, nature, hunting and fishing, and American-Indian life. . . . [True North] is a rich and satisfying read for the strenuously poetic passages detailing not only the complexities, quirks and intricacies of human emotions and interactions, but also for conveying a solid sense of place.” —Gordon Hauptfleisch, The San Diego Union-Tribune
“[The] best reason to read [True North is] for its mix of profound, bawdy, spiritual and humorous events. While Harrison’s big themes here are environmental destruction and greed, he also explores the wonders of the natural world, travel, the United States’ heavy history and, as the main character paraphrases a forgotten philosopher, ‘the miracle that life exists at all.’” —Tyler D. Johnson, The Denver Post
“Harrison is a masculine writer, unabashedly so in his appetites and enthusiasms, but never macho. If he is at times adoring of and sentimental about his women characters, their edge is not dulled by sweetness. . . . If his style can be as clean and clear as [Willa] Cather’s, he writes with [William] Faulkner’s voluble, untidy spilling forth. He has readers not because his prose is stylish but because it has personality and a compelling storyteller’s voice.” —William Corbett, The Boston Phoenix
“Harrison is at his best in True North when he is describing the cold north of the setting, when he is telling about fishing for trout and how the cold slaps against his cheeks, and when the protagonist is eating his catch in the tiny cabin in the big woods. . . . Harrison, the veteran novelist, still soars with new energy in his twelfth book of fiction.” —Wayne Greenhaw, ForeWord Magazine
“Harrison is Michigan’s writer, to be sure, and he is as fluent in the ways of nature as anyone. Through burly but graceful prose he gives us characters who practice a hardy, wind-in-the-face self-reliance.” —Scott W. Helman, The Boston Globe
“With more beauty, cogency and better writing than an aisle-full of self-help books, Harrison has stitched together an intricately written family history that suggests that our futures emerge only when the present is free of the past.” —John Schacht, Creative Loafing
“Like much of Harrison’s writing, [True North] is visceral, steeped in psychology, exacting in its descriptions of the natural world—and questioning of the way man has treated it.” —Steve Byrne, Detroit Free Press
“Harrison’s gift for getting inside his narrators is immediately spotlighted in True North. Burkett is equal parts mad monk and sensualist, and Harrison deftly balances these self-contradictions from scene to scene. . . . Harrison effortlessly weaves historical detail into his story, but the world his characters inhabit is defined mainly by their voices, which are spellbinding. . . . No American writer since Hemingway has produced a body of work so unflinchingly naturalistic, but Harrison has carved out his own legend by expanding the scope of his prose and his stories to take readers into uncharted territory.” —John Hicks, Weekly Planet
“Harrison, known for his ironic wit and his sense of humanity, assembles his usual cast of eccentrics and misfits . . . The evocative mélange of people and place is what makes True North a page-turner.” —Christene Meyers, Billings Gazette
“True North is best taken as a novel in the grand European tradition rather than the American. Religion and history figure here on a huge scale, as they do in the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. . . . An engaging read by a writer to be reckoned with.” —David Kirby, St. Petersburg Times
“[A] transcendent new novel. . . . True North features Harrison’s trademark earthy palette, complete with heavy drink, desperate sex and various self-destructive behaviors that characterize modern man’s attempt to feel something other than numb. In Harrison’s view, the only way to achieve full consciousness is to reconnect spiritually with the natural world.” —Jay MacDonald, The News-Press
“Where True North comes alive is when Harrison takes Burkett into the trees, lakes, and streams of the Upper Peninsula. He describes a place of incredible beauty despite being permanently scarred.” —Jeff Kunerth, Orlando Sentinel
“A terrific book. . . . For a book that covers so much time and wide-open space . . . this is a tight, claustrophobic telling, a painstaking portrait of a man strangling in his family’s sordid history. . . . For a novel set in the ’60s, ’70s and the ’80s, it is very much a book of our times.” —Brad Smith, National Post
“[True North] is an intriguing journey into a life ravaged by issues beyond one’s control. . . . [it] may be Harrison’s best work. . . . The true Harrison is revealed. A man vividly attuned to the earth and his homeland, he loves life yet carries a longing in him for something just beyond his grasp. . . . His work is deep and soulful; superficiality has no place in his world.” —Dana DuGan, Idaho Mountain Express
“True North is a heartfelt expression of [Harrison’s] love and respect for the natural world and those who want to honor it.” —Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“True North is a richly layered work of art. The layers explore human passions at many levels, and human psychology from the mythological to the intricate layering of Freud and Jung. As an artist, Harrison does what art is supposed to do whether on a grand scale—or small, one flawed human being at a time. He illuminates. He investigates. He shows us what we know but deny. He enlarges understanding.” —Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli, Traverse City Record-Eagle
“Reading Harrison can bring an almost physical pleasure. . . . One picks up the novel thinking to read a couple of quick pages; soon the reader pours a glass of wine and settles in to appreciate the musings of a writer who’s clearly observed nature—human and otherwise.” —Ron Tschida, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
“There’s no question that Harrison is one of our greatest living literary stylists, and this novel is filled with eloquence and graceful, pithy sentences. . . . As with almost any Harrison work, the reader can find on every single page some beautifully wrought, perfectly crafted passages of prose. . . . With a talent for artful prose clearly lacking in most would-be environmental writers, Harrison writes in this novel of the way that, culturally and psychologically, we become the messes we create.” —Aaron Parrett, Great Falls Tribune
“In True North, Harrison takes his ‘homeland’ novel a step further, with the Upper Peninsula emerging as a force, as much a fully developed character as many of the humans.” —Aki Soga, Burlington Free Press
“Harrison is a writer of prodigal gifts—he was a poet before turning to novels and screenplays—and a keen registrar of impressions. The book overflows with marvelous description and hard-bitten wisdom.” —Mark Shechner, The Buffalo News
“When author Harrison writes about a meal, one salivates; when he describes a drunken brawl, one looks for cover.” —Bette Erickson, Daily Camera (Boulder)
“Riveting. . . . A master of surprise endings, Harrison pulls off a bravura climax. . . . Harrison’s tragic sense of history and his ironic insight into the depravities of human nature are as potent as ever and bring deeper meaning to his . . . redemptive tale.” —Publishers Weekly
“Narrator David Burkett shares with other Harrison protagonists a hearty appreciation of food, drink, sex, and the pleasures of hiking, swimming, camping, and fishing in what remains of the American wilderness. . . . Uncompromising . . . stout-hearted readers will be impressed by Harrison’s fierce passion and dark poetry.” —Kirkus Reviews
“[True North] is a provocative tale that explores the roots of wealth and privilege in America and examines the troubled legacy of our 19th-century attitudes toward the land. . . . Harrison’s writing is superb, as always, rippling with thematic leaps and poetic insights.” —Tim McNulty, The Oregonian
“Watery landscapes and riparian light are constants in [Harrison’s] books. His descriptions of flora and fauna stand at the head of the line of American writers. True North is no exception. When Harrison writes about a blizzard, you shiver. When he describes a thunderstorm, you see lightning. And when writing about fishing, the author is at his most poetic.” —Stephen J. Lyons, San Francisco Chronicle
“Harrison combines a love of nature and life in the wild, which he describes in splendid, soaring prose, with a rich and troubled conscience tortured by the ambiguities of modern life. . . . [Harrison] bursts through with splashes of true brilliance.” —Dan Goddard, The Plain Dealer
“As always, Harrison manages to reward readers with poetic insights that transcend the characters and the story” —Terry Fiedler, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“From the brutal and gripping prologue, where the father’s hands have been severed at the wrist, through Burkett’s chronicles, his father’s misdeeds propel Burkett into the woods or across international boundaries to unearth secrets. This human story of a son’s attempt to understand a parent’s cruelty is [a] deftly told tale.” —Gail Louise Siegel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
“The scheme here isn’t man against nature; it is man into nature, and it is this scheme that brings the book . . . its keenest pleasures. . . . The land is beautifully, lovingly described, the writing rich with impeccable detail and the lore of the woods. . . . A worthy addition to the great [Harrison’s] work, and shows a writer, who, while comfortable with his themes, places and people, is not complacent in them. . . . Harrison is still pushing himself, and his characters, to inhabit the mysteries of the worlds they live in.” —Murray Farish, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Harrison can carry the reader into the Michigan wilderness with such vivid passages that they could serve a tourist better than memory. It’s not enough to say that reading Harrison is like visiting a place. It is like knowing a place.” —Fred Grimm, The Miami Herald
“[Harrison] is an accomplished and worthy writer who has written . . . in styles variously earnest and comic, and in lyrical prose at once tough and insightfully tender, but always cogently and entertainingly written, encompassing or touching upon such issues as greed, revenge, nature, hunting and fishing, and American-Indian life. . . . [True North] is a rich and satisfying read for the strenuously poetic passages detailing not only the complexities, quirks and intricacies of human emotions and interactions, but also for conveying a solid sense of place.” —Gordon Hauptfleisch, The San Diego Union-Tribune
“[The] best reason to read [True North is] for its mix of profound, bawdy, spiritual and humorous events. While Harrison’s big themes here are environmental destruction and greed, he also explores the wonders of the natural world, travel, the United States’ heavy history and, as the main character paraphrases a forgotten philosopher, ‘the miracle that life exists at all.’” —Tyler D. Johnson, The Denver Post
“Harrison is a masculine writer, unabashedly so in his appetites and enthusiasms, but never macho. If he is at times adoring of and sentimental about his women characters, their edge is not dulled by sweetness. . . . If his style can be as clean and clear as [Willa] Cather’s, he writes with [William] Faulkner’s voluble, untidy spilling forth. He has readers not because his prose is stylish but because it has personality and a compelling storyteller’s voice.” —William Corbett, The Boston Phoenix
“Harrison is at his best in True North when he is describing the cold north of the setting, when he is telling about fishing for trout and how the cold slaps against his cheeks, and when the protagonist is eating his catch in the tiny cabin in the big woods. . . . Harrison, the veteran novelist, still soars with new energy in his twelfth book of fiction.” —Wayne Greenhaw, ForeWord Magazine
“Harrison is Michigan’s writer, to be sure, and he is as fluent in the ways of nature as anyone. Through burly but graceful prose he gives us characters who practice a hardy, wind-in-the-face self-reliance.” —Scott W. Helman, The Boston Globe
“With more beauty, cogency and better writing than an aisle-full of self-help books, Harrison has stitched together an intricately written family history that suggests that our futures emerge only when the present is free of the past.” —John Schacht, Creative Loafing
“Like much of Harrison’s writing, [True North] is visceral, steeped in psychology, exacting in its descriptions of the natural world—and questioning of the way man has treated it.” —Steve Byrne, Detroit Free Press
“Harrison’s gift for getting inside his narrators is immediately spotlighted in True North. Burkett is equal parts mad monk and sensualist, and Harrison deftly balances these self-contradictions from scene to scene. . . . Harrison effortlessly weaves historical detail into his story, but the world his characters inhabit is defined mainly by their voices, which are spellbinding. . . . No American writer since Hemingway has produced a body of work so unflinchingly naturalistic, but Harrison has carved out his own legend by expanding the scope of his prose and his stories to take readers into uncharted territory.” —John Hicks, Weekly Planet
“Harrison, known for his ironic wit and his sense of humanity, assembles his usual cast of eccentrics and misfits . . . The evocative mélange of people and place is what makes True North a page-turner.” —Christene Meyers, Billings Gazette
“True North is best taken as a novel in the grand European tradition rather than the American. Religion and history figure here on a huge scale, as they do in the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. . . . An engaging read by a writer to be reckoned with.” —David Kirby, St. Petersburg Times
“[A] transcendent new novel. . . . True North features Harrison’s trademark earthy palette, complete with heavy drink, desperate sex and various self-destructive behaviors that characterize modern man’s attempt to feel something other than numb. In Harrison’s view, the only way to achieve full consciousness is to reconnect spiritually with the natural world.” —Jay MacDonald, The News-Press
“Where True North comes alive is when Harrison takes Burkett into the trees, lakes, and streams of the Upper Peninsula. He describes a place of incredible beauty despite being permanently scarred.” —Jeff Kunerth, Orlando Sentinel
“A terrific book. . . . For a book that covers so much time and wide-open space . . . this is a tight, claustrophobic telling, a painstaking portrait of a man strangling in his family’s sordid history. . . . For a novel set in the ’60s, ’70s and the ’80s, it is very much a book of our times.” —Brad Smith, National Post
“[True North] is an intriguing journey into a life ravaged by issues beyond one’s control. . . . [it] may be Harrison’s best work. . . . The true Harrison is revealed. A man vividly attuned to the earth and his homeland, he loves life yet carries a longing in him for something just beyond his grasp. . . . His work is deep and soulful; superficiality has no place in his world.” —Dana DuGan, Idaho Mountain Express
“True North is a heartfelt expression of [Harrison’s] love and respect for the natural world and those who want to honor it.” —Bob Hoover, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“True North is a richly layered work of art. The layers explore human passions at many levels, and human psychology from the mythological to the intricate layering of Freud and Jung. As an artist, Harrison does what art is supposed to do whether on a grand scale—or small, one flawed human being at a time. He illuminates. He investigates. He shows us what we know but deny. He enlarges understanding.” —Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli, Traverse City Record-Eagle
“Reading Harrison can bring an almost physical pleasure. . . . One picks up the novel thinking to read a couple of quick pages; soon the reader pours a glass of wine and settles in to appreciate the musings of a writer who’s clearly observed nature—human and otherwise.” —Ron Tschida, Bozeman Daily Chronicle
“There’s no question that Harrison is one of our greatest living literary stylists, and this novel is filled with eloquence and graceful, pithy sentences. . . . As with almost any Harrison work, the reader can find on every single page some beautifully wrought, perfectly crafted passages of prose. . . . With a talent for artful prose clearly lacking in most would-be environmental writers, Harrison writes in this novel of the way that, culturally and psychologically, we become the messes we create.” —Aaron Parrett, Great Falls Tribune
“In True North, Harrison takes his ‘homeland’ novel a step further, with the Upper Peninsula emerging as a force, as much a fully developed character as many of the humans.” —Aki Soga, Burlington Free Press
“Harrison is a writer of prodigal gifts—he was a poet before turning to novels and screenplays—and a keen registrar of impressions. The book overflows with marvelous description and hard-bitten wisdom.” —Mark Shechner, The Buffalo News
“When author Harrison writes about a meal, one salivates; when he describes a drunken brawl, one looks for cover.” —Bette Erickson, Daily Camera (Boulder)
“Riveting. . . . A master of surprise endings, Harrison pulls off a bravura climax. . . . Harrison’s tragic sense of history and his ironic insight into the depravities of human nature are as potent as ever and bring deeper meaning to his . . . redemptive tale.” —Publishers Weekly
“Narrator David Burkett shares with other Harrison protagonists a hearty appreciation of food, drink, sex, and the pleasures of hiking, swimming, camping, and fishing in what remains of the American wilderness. . . . Uncompromising . . . stout-hearted readers will be impressed by Harrison’s fierce passion and dark poetry.” —Kirkus Reviews
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