The Search for the Genuine

Nonfiction, 1970-2015

De: Jim Harrison

Narrado por: Traber Burns

The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism—some never before published.

New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison (1937-2016) was a writer with a poet’s economy of style and trencherman’s appetites and ribald humor.

In The Search for the Genuine, a collection of new and previously published essays, the giant of letters muses on everything from grouse hunting and fishing to Zen Buddhism and matters of the spirit, including reported pieces on Yellowstone and shark-tagging in the open ocean, commentary on writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and a heartbreaking essay on life—and, for those attempting to cross in the ever-more-dangerous gaps, death—on the US/Mexico border.

Written with Harrison’s trademark humor, compassion, and full-throated zest for life, this chronicle of a modern bon vivant is a feast for fans who may think they know Harrison’s nonfiction, from a true “American original”.

©2022 Jim Harrison (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Great historical background of JH life

For fans of Jim Harrison this book stitches together many of his stories and his personal experiences.

Rewarding

Great insights from a remarkable man. Great delivery by the narrator. A fully rewarding and inspiring experience from an artist of immense passion, appetites and storytelling talent.

How I Miss Him

Pure Harrison. Enjoyable listening and deep feeling from one of my favorite authors. Thank you for producing it for us all.

A Life Well Celebrated

As I listened to this book I was transported to places that I have never experienced and I felt like I had missed something. I have been a fan of Jim Harrison's fiction for a long time having encountered it in many of the magazines I read as a young man, but I never really read his non-fiction. I found this book truly revealing of a passionate man for the outdoors. Listen to this if you are a hunter, birder, fisherman, or a lover of nature and you will know what the world without Jim will be like.

Classic Harrison.

A collection of gems. A delight. If you are missing JH this will be for you.

Relaxing read for Harrison Fans

The best thing about The Search for the Genuine is the way Harrison’s storytelling wanders from fishing hole to hunting tract to give rise to the fact that he has found it. The real value of a Life for him wasn’t found in the emails, faxes, rejection letters, or hotel stays that filled his day job, but rather in the campfire feasts, drunken nights, and freezing morning encounters with Nature in all her Glory. The Truth that he came to know as a ten year old boy was still true for the seventy year old man and he reveled in it.

This collection lets the Reader feel the joy as he takes us around the World loving every new challenge, close call, or wrong turn. Good decisions and bad, all part of the Game, the Real. Parts of a Real, True, Genuine Life!

I enjoyed sharing those moments, as only he could tell of them. Four Stars. ****

Great author. Great essays. Great performance. Bravo!

My title says it all. If you like Harrison at all, you’ll love this audio book.

Too self indulgent for me

While some of the essays are entertaining, they're is too much of today I did X with person Y. I appreciate his naturalist perspective, the individual who read the book was ponderous, slow, and plodding. I will never listen to another audible book by that narrator

Too self absorbed

Don’t like all of his references too egotistical yuk. I have better books to explore than this cat’s hogwash