Sundog - by Jim Harrison (Paperback)

About the Book

The New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry--including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth--Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. Sundog is a powerful novel about the life and loves of a foreman named Robert Corvus Strang, who worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled in a fall down a three-hundred-foot dam. Now as he tries to regain use of his legs, he has a chance to reassess his life, and a blasé journalist who has heard of Strang's reputation in the field arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations. Strang--who has the violently heightened sensibilities of a man who has gone to the limits and back--recounts his monumental life moving from Michigan to Africa and the Amazon, including his several marriages and children, and dozens of lovers. "A feisty, passionate novel" (Newsday) from a writer whose "storytelling instincts are nearly flawless" (The New York Times), Sundog is a story as true and gripping as real life, and ultimately as victorious.

Book Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine books --including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth--Jim Harrison is adored by readers and critics.

Sundog is a powerful novel about the life and loves of a foreman named Robert Corvus Strang, who worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled in a fall down a three-hundred-foot dam. Now as he tries to regain use of his legs, he has a chance to reassess his life, and a blasé journalist who has heard of Strang's reputation in the field arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations.

Strang--who has the violently heightened sensibilities of a man who has gone to the limits and back--recounts his monumental life moving from Michigan to Africa and the Amazon, including his several marriages and children, and dozens of lovers. "A feisty, passionate novel" (Newsday) from a writer whose "storytelling instincts are nearly flawless" (The New York Times), Sundog is a story as true and gripping as real life, and ultimately as victorious.

Review Quotes

"Harrison's storytelling instincts are nearly flawless."--The New York Times

"Set in the heart of America, his stories move with random power and reach, in the manner of Melville and Faulkner."--The Boston Globe

"Harrison is brilliant at portraying this wild country . . . The pulse of Sundog . . . is the concern with life's meaningfulness . . . This is a book of the spirit."--San Francisco Chronicle

"First-rate fiction . . . told with a poet's grace and passion. The characters are rich and complex."--Detroit Free Press

"A feisty, passionate novel . . . A kind of intellectual detective story."--Newsday

"Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him."--The London Sunday Times

"Harrison is among the foremost writers of the literary generation that has succeeded Styron, Mailer, Jones and Updike."--Philip Caputo, author of Rumors of War

"Harrison . . . evokes the grandeur of Michigan's semi-wilderness in this quietly beautiful book."--ALA Booklist