Farmer, Jim Harrison
Farmer, Jim Harrison
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Farmer

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Christian Baskous

Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/11/2019

Synopsis

In Farmer, Jim Harrison tells the story of Joseph, a forty-three-year-old farmer and school teacher who suddenly finds himself at a crossroads. Forced to choose between two lovers—one a younger woman, the other his beautiful childhood friend—he must also decide whether or not to stay on the farm or finally seek the wider, broader horizons he has avoided all his life.Returning Harrison fans will be ecstatic to find this early Harrison work available in audio, and for new readers, this work serves as the perfect introduction to Harrison’s remarkable insight, storytelling, and evocation of the natural world.

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 Christian Baskous

Christian Baskous is an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. His theatrical credits include numerous roles in the New York Shakespeare Festival, Circle in the Square, the Kennedy Center, and Theater for the New City, as well as other regional theaters. His film and television work includes appearances in Glory, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Law & Order, Swan’s Crossing, and Swift Justice.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jonfaith

When you lifted the lid a bit the natural world, including ourselves, offered as much darkness in human terms as light. The Farmer's Daughter is comprised of three novellas, all treading towards the slightly creepy (I should qualify that term: quasi-sexual relations between an elderly man and a teen,......more

Goodreads review by Stephen

I would give this 3.5 stars if a half star were available. I have always liked Jim Harrison. And I've always felt slightly guilty about that. Let's face it, he's a muscular writer whose male characters are always filled with lots and lots of whiskey and ready for lots and lots of sex, while his best......more

Goodreads review by Isabelle

It was so nice to read some of the reviews of this book prior to writing my own; nice and also quite reassuring inasmuch as I am not the only one who has become a slavish fan of Jim Harrison's since the first book of his I read: "Legends of the Fall" (before the movie was made, rest assured!). Here h......more

Quotes

“A beautiful novel.” Boston Globe

“Superb.” Saturday Review

“In Harrison’s hand the story is fresh with a gentle intuition.” Houston Chronicle

“A quiet triumph…Joseph is a man suffocated by everything he loves most in the world: the land and its ghosts, love and friendship, integrity. Yes, it is the old story again. Taking it and making it new, as Harrison has done, is a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes. But then so are all good novels.” Washington Post

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