{"product_id":"9781555846503","title":"The Summer He Didn't Die","description":"\u003cb\u003eThree classic novellas from “one of our master chroniclers of human hungers, flaws, and frustrations.” (\u003ci\u003eThe Kansas City Star\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Jim Harrison’s vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master of the novella. His highly acclaimed volume of novellas, \u003ci\u003eThe Summer He Didn’t Die,\u003c\/i\u003e is a sparkling and exuberant collection about love, the senses, and family, no matter how untraditional. In the title novella, Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren and take care of his family’s health on meager resources. (It helps a bit that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town.) \u003ci\u003eRepublican Wives\u003c\/i\u003e is a wicked satire on the sexual neuroses of the right, the emptiness of a life lived for the status quo, and the irrational power of love that, when thwarted, can turn so easily into an urge to murder. And \u003ci\u003eTracking\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on Harrison’s fascination with place, telling his own familiar mythology through the places his life has seen and the intellectual loves he has known.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With wit as sharp and prose as lush as any Harrison has yet written, \u003ci\u003eThe Summer He Didn’t Die\u003c\/i\u003e is a resonant, warm, and joyful ode to our journey on this earth.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Harrison has proved to be one of our finest storytellers. These novellas are urgent and contemporary, displaying his marvelous gifts for compression and idiosyncratic language.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132475621616,"sku":"9781555846503","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555846503_p0.jpg?v=1763753276","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555846503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}