Sundog, Jim Harrison
Sundog, Jim Harrison
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Sundog

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Traber Burns, Christian Baskous

Unabridged: 7 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/12/2021

Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of numerous books of fiction, nonfiction, 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, his children, and dozens of lovers. Sundog is a story as true and gripping as real life, and ultimately as victorious.

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 Traber Burns

Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey’s Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others.

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 M. on July 20, 2020

[URL not allowed] ...This leaflet identifies the plant Aristolochia medicinalis, which is a native Venezuelan remedy for epilepsy and other seizures, and which helped give me insight into the core of Strang's unique personality. Whether he is still alive or not is obviously bey......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on December 03, 2008

I have no idea where this book came from; it's been on my bookshelf for ages and I finally decided to read it. At first I thought I was going to hate it. It seemed colorless and boring, narrated in first-person by a self-centered author sent to write a biography on an engineer. But as characters wer......more

Goodreads review by John on June 14, 2023

I really wanted to like this book more than I actually did. I found the life story of the central character Robert Corvus Strang intriguing and entertaining, the constant interruptions of the narrator journalist were irritating and unnecessary, interrupting the flow of the narratIve. Jim Harrison is......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin on June 03, 2012

Fuck you. Read it.......more

Goodreads review by Charles on May 04, 2010

Excellent character study. Brilliant prose if you can get past the fact all the character seem to speak the same way. Never seen the word "vertigo" so much in one book.......more

Quotes

“Harrison is brilliant at portraying this wild country…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

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