Brown Dog

This collection of novellas featuring the titular Indian underscores Jim Harrison's place as one of America's most irrepressible writers.A New York Times–bestselling author Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved writers, and of all his creations, Brown Dog, a bawdy, reckless, down-on-his-luck Michigan Indian, has earned cult status with readers in the decades since his first appearance. Brown Dog gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never-published one, into one volume—the ideal introduction (or reintroduction) to Harrison's irresistible Everyman.In these novellas, BD rescues the preserved body of an Indian from Lake Superior's cold waters, overindulges in food, drink, and women while just scraping by in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, wanders Los Angeles in search of an ersatz Native activist who stole his bearskin, adopts two Native children, and flees the authorities, then returns across the Canadian border aboard an Indian rock band's tour bus. The collection...

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