The Farmer's Daughter

Novellas

By: Jim Harrison

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Paperback | 7 September 2010

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The collection's title novella, "The Farmer's Daughter," opens in the unforgettable voice of a fifteen-year-old girl living a life of solitude in rural Montana, where she has recently moved. Home-schooled by parents who don't fully understand her, she finds escape in the rapture of playing piano and exploring the gorgeous countryside on her horse. Several important mentors teach her that there's more to life than her fundamentalist mother wants her to know–and then her mother runs off with another man, leaving the girl to deal mostly alone with an unexpected assault that tests her mettle just as she was supposed to begin a normal teenage life.

In the next novella, Harrison picks up the thread of beloved recurring character Brown Dog, who when we last saw him was in Toronto to save his developmentally disabled adopted daughter, Berry, from being locked in an institution. But Toronto has run out of welcome, and Brown Dog and an unexpected benefactor...

About The Author

JIM HARRISON is the author of four volumes of novellas, including Legends of the Fall; seven novels, including The Road Home and Dalva; seven collections of poetry; and two collections of nonfiction.

Industry Reviews

"[Harrison's] sentences ... fuse on the page with a power and blunt beauty." -- Jennifer Egan
"Bawdy and engaging ... Wives, daughters of America, for your reading Papa, this ribald, questing, utterly charming and Zen-serious novel ... is the book of the year." -- Alan Cheuse
"Harrison's language seems to come straight from America's center of gravity, the core of the country where people still live by a code and think for themselves.... After twenty-five books Harrison is ... closing in on the status of a national treasure." -- Anthony Brandt
"The English Major is to midlife crisis what The Catcher in the Rye is to adolescence....Without any preachiness or sentiment, Harrison gives us more than one dimension to live in. He gives us the four directions." -- Susan Salter Reynolds
"This is a master writer who has some important things to say about life and how to live it." -- Ron Antonucci

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