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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
By Jim Harrison
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[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison writes with enough force to make your knees buckle and with infectious zeal that makes you turn the pages hungry for more . . . Jim Harrison has staked out a distinctive place in the world of food writing.”Jane and Michael Stern, New York Times Book Review on The Raw and the Cooked
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as the poet laureate of appetite” (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch, to be published on the one-year anniversary of Harrison’s death, collects many of his food pieces for the first timeand taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.
Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison’s life over the last three decades. A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.
Harrison is the American Rabelais, and he is at his irreverent and excessive best in this collection.” John Skowles, San Diego Union-Tribune on The Raw and the Cooked
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as the poet laureate of appetite” (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch, to be published on the one-year anniversary of Harrison’s death, collects many of his food pieces for the first timeand taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.
Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison’s life over the last three decades. A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.
Harrison is the American Rabelais, and he is at his irreverent and excessive best in this collection.” John Skowles, San Diego Union-Tribune on The Raw and the Cooked
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Jim Harrison is a poet, novelist and essayist. His trilogy, The Legend of the Falls, has been adapted for film.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I am so sad that tis is the last new work of JH. The guys life and philosophy, no matter how cobbled together, was inspiration as well as entertaining as told through his stories and non-fictionand poetry. He lived life well though his doubt and fury and writing about well. If we could all be so lucky. Good-bye Jim
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just like a nice meal or a walk outdoors, this is a book to savor in small pieces. I wasn't sure about the book in the beginning, but I had really enjoyed " Winter morning walks: one hundred postcards to Jim Harrison" by Ted Kooser - so I was willing to give this very personal book a chance. I'm glad that I read it. Interesting stories, wacky, unconventional, and a peek inside the soul and life of a man that lived life in his own way.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The man owns and explores his appetites. Somewhat repetitive read straight through, should be sampled and savored in small bites. Like the author, instead I devoured the whole thing in a sitting or two...