The Road Home (Paperback)
Description
The Road Home lies in the shadows of Manifest Destiny and Wounded Knee; it is etched into the landscape of an old man's memory and into the stubborn dreams of a young man's heart. In Jim Harrison's latest masterpiece, five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. They strive to understand their fates, reconcile with demons of the past, love with honor, live in accordance with the land and the lessons in humility it teaches them. And to die with grace. As the family grapples with the mysterious forces that both pull them apart and draw them inextricably back together, they learn of life's lessons: the deception of passion, the pain of love, the vitality of art, and the supplication to nature's generosity and fury.
About the Author
Jim Harrison is the author of three volumes of novellas, Legends of the Fall, The Woman Lit by Fireflies, and Julip; seven novels, Wolf, A Good Day to Die, Farmer, Warlock, Sundog, Dalva, and The Road Home; seven collections of poetry; and a collection of nonfiction, Just Before Dark. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He lives in northern Michigan and Arizona.
Praise for The Road Home…
The New York Times Book Review A graceful novel...To read this book is to feel the luminosity of nature in one's own being.
Boston Sunday Herald The Road Home is Harrison at the peak of his powers, a splendid combined prequel and sequel...very much alive and probably his best novel.
Newsweek Each Northridge family member stitches in a piece of the family history. They are such good company you forget they exist nowhere but in Harrison's imagination.
Denver Post The Road Home confirms what his longtime fans already know: Harrison is on the short list of American literary masters.
Library Journal Not only a compelling drama but a profound consideration of how one lives a meaningful life and faces death in an increasingly superficial, consumer-oriented culture.
San Diego Star-Tribune Harrison gives us characters with heart and soul; keen-eyed and rarely sentimental, they are the sorts of people we'd like to be, and so our identification is immediate.
Newsday The Road Home is a rapturous but unsentimental hymn of praise for the wonderous strangeness of life.
Boston Sunday Herald The humor, conscience, and iconoclastic spirit of Mark Twain live on in Jim Harrison.
The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal The Road Home is a bountiful, rambunctious, serious book about who we are and how we become that way, and its muscular, life-affirming story may open a few eyes and hearts.
New York Daily News As you read Harrison, you sense that what he tells you about his characters is a fraction of what he knows. The reason they are so alive, so involving, is they reflect an enormous richness of experience