Harrison's WARLOCK

[Jhildt at aol.com]

JM

Just thought I'd lend some support and agree with you about Jim Harrison.
 He's a terrific writer.  Not a TP/RP/DFW type but wonderfully droll and
great with eccentric characters and situations (e.g. an Indian Chief found
frozen whole deep in Lake Superior by a kid diving salvage who "raises the
dead" and tries to get the corpse to museum so he can sell it before it
thaws).  I think SUNDOG is my favorite of the novels I've read (about a
feisty old man who's been all over the world building dams and bridges in
underdeveloped countries who has retired to the woods in the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan with his very young, but wise, girlfriend, when his past insists
on catching up with him).

WARLOCK is a bit schizophrenic, but ultimately charming.  Sorry to hear he's
disowned it. The best way, perhaps, to come at Harrison is through the
novellas, collected in threes, and all of them fascinating.  Especially "A
Woman Lit by Fireflies" for the middle story about a group of 30-something
former college friends who come together to try to spring one of their
comrades from a Mexican jail.

[And don't hold against him the fact that he wrote the story "Legends of the
Fall" -- which was probably a much better story than movie.]

Three cheers for Jim Harrison!