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false <![CDATA[Returning to Earth]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168063644m/30261.jpg 30261 16 <div>Hailed by <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> as “a master … who makes the ordinary extraordinary, the unnamable unforgettable,” beloved author Jim Harrison returns with a masterpiece—a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and finding redemption in unlikely places. Slowly dying of Lou Gehrig’s Disease, Donald, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, begins dictating family stories he has never shared with anyone, hoping to preserve history for his children. The dignity of Donald’s death and his legacy encourages his loved ones to find a way to redeem—and let go of—the past, whether through his daughter’s emersion in Chippewa religious ideas or his mourning wife’s attempt to escape the malevolent influence of her own father. A deeply moving book about origins and endings, and how to live with honor for the dead, <i>Returning to Earth</i> is one of the finest novels of Harrison’s long, storied career, and will confirm his standing as one of the most important American writers now working.</div> 73865 2006 Returning to Earth total:339|5:100|4:135|3:80|2:19|1:5| 339 1323 535 75 3 2 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 14 18:54:13 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 21:01:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Dec 14 10:43:18 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 11:17:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 12:11:29 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 11:13:54 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jul 21 07:21:59 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 08:44:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 13:24:31 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 13:35:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 true false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 19:36:47 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 24 19:43:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:41:03 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:41:03 -0800 2009 Jim Harrison, best known for Legends of the Fall, evokes both Hemingway and Faulkner in his most recent novel. The novel's prose is spare and strong, but the characters and their secrets, slowly revealed through four interlocking first-person narratives, are rich and complex. Set 30 years after True...

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'Returning to Earth' is sublime. It is in four parts, each part narrated from a different perspective. At t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 10:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 10:17:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 11 09:47:55 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 09:51:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 12 06:46:13 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 07:07:55 -0700 2008
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