A Good Day to Die, Jim Harrison
A Good Day to Die, Jim Harrison
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A Good Day to Die

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 4 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2019

Synopsis

Their plans were conceived in a drunken excitement and resulted in more horror than any of them could have imagined. There was the poet able to retreat into beatific reveries of superb fishing in cold, fast streams; the Vietnam vet consumed by uppers, downers, and violence; and the girl who loved only one of them—at first.With their ideals ostensibly in order, they set out from Florida to save the Grand Canyon from a dam they believed was being built. Along with the tape deck for the car, the liquor, and the drugs, there was also a case of dynamite.

About Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was the author of over thirty-five books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Legends of the Fall, The Road Home, The English Major, and The Farmer’s Daughter. His writing appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and the New York Times. He earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association. His work has been recognized worldwide and published in twenty-two languages.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki is a Grammy-winning audiobook producer and a multiaward-winning narrator, named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cody on August 26, 2011

Finished it because it has some very nice prose. Protagonist is an asshole (which would be fine for some other readers but) and overall it's pretty much your standard macho heterosexual jerk-off book. The one female character is even more one-dimensional than the two main male characters, etc., not......more

Goodreads review by M. on October 20, 2020

[URL not allowed]-... ...I WENT BACK to my room and lolled around naked… Never surprised with an opening like this in a Jim Harrison work of art. I cannot imagine what he was actually like in real life. Perhaps one day we’ll get a closer look at the man. I do know he was much softe......more

Goodreads review by Andy on May 01, 2018

Three very different characters from the Florida Keys team up in an unlikely friendship on a road trip across the US for the most unlikely of reasons, to blow up a dam on the Clearwater in Idaho as a protest against its unethical construction, fuelled with a mass of drugs and alcohol. Tim is a Vietn......more

Goodreads review by Larry on November 05, 2021

This book was originally published in 1973 and then issued in the Audible version in 2019 after the death of the author. A number of his books have apparently been re-issued following is 2016 death. I am beginning to think that reading a number of books by this particular author simultaneously back t......more

Goodreads review by Robert on March 07, 2021

Shout out to Hank who probably never reads these but got to listen to this with me on the trek back from AZ! Checks all of the Harrison boxes -Main character from Michigan -Drug abuse -Alcoholism -A tour of western states -General nihilism -A male character obsessed with a female character One of his bette......more

Quotes

“A singular joy to read.” Harry Crews, author of Scar Lover

“I found myself racing along, utterly caught up in the momentum of the story and eager to find out how it would turn out…Harrison’s perceptions are jagged and cutting…A remarkably well-plotted story.” New York Times

“One of the very best fiction writers in America.” Playboy, praise for the author

“Jack Kerouac’s highway hopes claimed by studded tires!…What amazes here is the fact that Harrison never lets up—from chemical high to emotional plunge, one disconnected cry after another. For those who enjoy driving without a steering wheel, this book is a must.” Fiction International

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