Harrison's WARLOCK

[davemarc]

At 10:56 PM 3/14/96 -0500, Jhildt wrote:
>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!
>
Hip, hip, huhhhh?  For anyone confused by the twin Warlocks haunting our
little mail exchange, I'll be happy to provide a little clarification.

Jim Harrison is the author of Warlock (1981), described above.

Oakley Hall is the author of Warlock (1958), a book admired by Thomas
Pynchon and Richard Farina, among others.

Calling Dr. Bombay,

davemarc