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4.0 out of 5 stars Surprising Find, November 13, 2000

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This review is from: The Road Home (Paperback)

I was completely surprised by the quality of this novel. I expected something along the lines of the only other work I have read by Jim Harrison,'Legend of the Falls'. While 'The Road Home' has some cross references to that earlier, slighter work, it is a substantially greater novel. The characters are so well defined they feel like relatives, people you have known for a lifetime. Harrison manages to evoke so much compassion for his characters that they are truly three dimensional, sometimes threatening to jump right off the page. Harrison's description of the American West is convincing and detailed (and fascinating to a reader like myself from another country). I recommend this work without reservation...as a reader of Harrison you can rest assured you are in the hands of an author who knows his craft, know his characters and story and knows how not to disappoint his readers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Road less Traveled, July 8, 2002

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Keith Moore (Oxford, MS United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Road Home (Paperback)

There is no writer in the world that can write like Harrison. Look, I have read every book by Faulkner, Hemingway, Larry Brown, Rick Bass, and Cormac McCarthy; some three times.And not one story has the poetry, humanity, sex, Spirituality,and reality ,mixed with humor and philosophy of Jim Harrison at his best. I know this is saying a great deal. But the thing is, I've got to tell it like it is. Of course many will disagree. Read this story, "The Road Home", then read "Dalva", then read "The Road Home" again. The read "Light in August" and "Joe, "Winter", and "The Crossing". And then read "A Woman Lit By Fireflies". Then you write a review.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Experience, September 2, 2002

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Jill M. Eichner "jillme" (VA United States) - See all my reviews
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After discussing this book with several other literature-lovers, I've found that you either really love this book or you're so-so on it. Women love it more than men, which surprised me, but then, I'm a woman and really loved it and don't see how you can't. But I also love nature, which is BIG in Harrison, and psychological depth, and romance, and family ties, and it's all there.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Do not read this before you read Dalva
This book is a joy to read. It follows on from Dalva, but stands as a masterpiece in it's own right. Harrison is the master of character definition. Read more

Published 7 days ago by patti j denman

2.0 out of 5 stars Dull and ponderous
The prose is lovely, but this book is maddeningly repetitive.

The grandfather and grandson meander in circles through time, chasing women, drinking, and having... Read more

Published 13 months ago by tealjoye

5.0 out of 5 stars A biblical literary achievement; holding hands with greatness
Well, I am still savoring this one. The Road Home is a novel deeply rooted in the bones of the Midwest; each sentence appears to have been painstakenly exhumed from a Native... Read more

Published on August 8, 2009 by Yasmin H. McEwen

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
This is the first book that I have read from this author and I am hooked. His writing is so good and descriptive that it kept me glued to reading this novel. Read more

Published on May 2, 2007 by Raining Sunshine

4.0 out of 5 stars Very well done
Mr. Harrison has constructed a story that, as one other reviewer has stated, is so well-written it is as though the reader knows the characters personally. Read more

Published on February 19, 2007 by J. Scott Shipman

5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps his best.
I've been reading a lot of Harrison lately ( in fact ,nearly all his prose) and I must say that this is the best of the bunch. Read more

Published on November 25, 2006 by Mark C. Hall

4.0 out of 5 stars Long and lingering
Harrison definitely hooked me on this one. He certainly takes his time, and as one reviewer has pointed out, each character keeps bringing up the past, but that is an effective... Read more

Published on October 4, 2006 by M. Kirkland

5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary
The intimacy of the human experience provided in this book is to be savored.

Published on January 20, 2002 by D. Cook

3.0 out of 5 stars ALMOST BORING
I read this book and was just as unimpressed as I was with it's companion novel Dalva. It was simply OK - nothing more. Read more

Published on March 8, 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Return home
Just a heck of a good book especially the first novella

Published on February 24, 2000 by neal

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New York, John Wesley, World War, Santa Monica, Lake Superior, Buffalo Gap, Art Institute, Pine Ridge, Grand Marais, New Mexico, United States, Rhode Island, Wounded Knee, Grand Island, Civil War, State Fair, Black Hills, Great Depression, Jesus Christ, Korean War, Los Angeles, San Francisco, South Dakota, The Road Home, Central America

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