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Julip: A Novel
by
Jim Harrison
In three novellas, Jim Harrison takes us on an American journey as he leads us through the wondrous landscape of the human heart. "Julip" follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail—he shot three of her former lovers "below the belt." "The Seven-Ounce Man" continues the picaresque adventu...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
October 1st 2008
by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
(first published 1994)
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"Julip" is a collection of 3 uniquely written novellas about 3 different but equally spectacular characters. Jim Harrison's writing is easy, flowing and deliberate but at the same time complex and coordinated. I'm constantly jotting down sentences, words and notions from his books that move me enough that I don't want to forget them. Each character somehow shadows my own life - periodically reminding me of myself, those I love and even, sometimes, those I hate. Oddly enough, Jim H...more
Julip is a collection of 3 uniquely written novellas about 3 different but equally spectacular characters. Jim Harrison's writing is easy, flowing and deliberate but at the same time complex and coordinated. I'm constantly jotting down sentences, words and notions from his books that move me enough that I don't want to forget them. Each character somehow shadows my own life - periodically reminding me of myself, those I love and even, sometimes, those I hate. Oddly enough, Jim Harrison's writing...more
Three stories. Begins with one featuring the eponymous character in an absurd and slightly claustrophobic setup.
The Beige Dolorosa, the second most moving story of academic exile I've read (HUAC testimonials aside), is runner-up for the best story of the three. It must be said that Coetzee's Disgrace - which was published five years later - bears some resemblance to it. But then, the commonalities, like sex scandal, exile to the countryside, and exposure to a criminal element, serve...more
The Beige Dolorosa, the second most moving story of academic exile I've read (HUAC testimonials aside), is runner-up for the best story of the three. It must be said that Coetzee's Disgrace - which was published five years later - bears some resemblance to it. But then, the commonalities, like sex scandal, exile to the countryside, and exposure to a criminal element, serve...more
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"Pithy and engaging....A peppery mix of redemption and hilarity....Harrison's ability to weave offbeat characters and outrageous circumstances into tight, poetic, and often hilarious fiction is a rare and welcome gift." - Seattle Times
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Hmmm.... didn't do much for me.
This is one of those books that (I suppose) has depth and all sorts of (not so) hidden symbolism. But this is what I'd call an "art house" book. The kind of thing, I suppose, the hoity toity discuss over brie and cucumber finger sandwiches.
I guess I'm just too much of a meat and potatoes kind of guy.
This is one of those books that (I suppose) has depth and all sorts of (not so) hidden symbolism. But this is what I'd call an "art house" book. The kind of thing, I suppose, the hoity toity discuss over brie and cucumber finger sandwiches.
I guess I'm just too much of a meat and potatoes kind of guy.
Discovering an author for the first time is one of the great joys in life. Finding Jim Harrison, who I liken to Hemingway with a sensitive side, is going to make this long winter season in Montana bearable.
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O man this collection of novellas was so much fun. Both Julip (pure wish fulfillment) and the Brown Dog story are fantastic: if Rabelais was a twentieth-century guy he's be Jim Harrison. Cheers!
Lots of humor in Harrison's writing about male foibles, and they are largely male, and largely preoccupied with sex, thinking about it, getting it, avoiding it. The Beige Dolorosa is my favorite of the three with its western setting. The increasingly befuddled professor, on leave after inappropriate behavior on campus, shows his vulnerability most openly. Julip seemed the least moving of the three novellas.
The first story is the best.
Weirdly, Jim Harrison does his best writing when the narrator is a woman.
Weirdly, Jim Harrison does his best writing when the narrator is a woman.
Very typical Jim Harrison. I liked the Beige Dolorosa the best, but all three were great.
Is there anything more enjoyable than a Brown Dog novella? Loved the other stories as well.
Love this man; love this book.
Loved all three stories - but the 2nd was my favorite. I'm stoked to learn that the main character in story 2, Brown Dog, is a recurring character. And a character he is.
Yes. Yes. Though it's time to give Harrison a rest.
When I have a family, and we get family pictures taken, whoever sits on the chair (I will ask the photographer if it could be me) is going to have to hold this book over their head, while the rest of the family looks at it adoringly.
What can I say? This guy is one of my favorite authors of all time. And he writes about women (he gets inside the head of a woman) like no other male writer I know. He seems to really know them. Amazing.
So far so good. At first I found Julip's diary and her love of Emily Dickinson a little too blatant. A lot of sex with funny situations but interest is fading rapidly.
If you like Jim Harrison, you will like another strong female character such as Julip.
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Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison, both avid readers. He married Linda King in 1959 with whom he has two daughters.
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“I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.”
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