# The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015 - Hardcover

by **Jim Harrison** (Author)

**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 a trencherman's appetites. Praised as a  
"national treasure" (_Chicago Tribune_) and published in twenty-seven languages, he was one of  
this country's most beloved and critically acclaimed authors. Best known for  
his poetry and fiction such as _Legends_ _of the  
Fall_, _Dalva_, and _Returning  
to Earth_, Harrison was also a prolific  
nonfiction writer, with columns running in _Sports  
Illustrated_ and _Esquire_,  
and work in _Outside_, Field _& Stream_, and others. The first collection of Harrison's general  
nonfiction in thirty years, _The  
Search for the Genuine_ is a  
sparkling, definitive volume of essays and journalism--from the near-classic to  
the never-published.

With his trademark ribald humor,  
compassion, and full-throated zest for life, _The  
Search for the Genuine_ pays  
tribute to writers from Bukowski to Neruda to Peter Matthiessen, and examines  
the distance between literary reputation and the work itself; he attains  
something like satori in the field hunting grouse; he reports on Yellowstone  
for the park's hundredth anniversary, when he was merely a tourist to the part  
of Montana he would eventually call home; he takes to the open sea in pursuit  
of roosterfish, marlin, tarpon, and, once, to observe a scientific mission  
tagging sharks; he delivers a heartbreaking essay on life--and, for those  
attempting to cross in the ever-more dangerous gaps, death--on the US-Mexico  
border. Always he comes back to the spirit and to connection with the natural  
world and the people who sustained him; throughout the book his feeling for the  
American landscape rings out.

Lovingly introduced by acclaimed  
novelist, poet, and essayist Luis Alberto Urrea, _The Search for the Genuine_ is a feast that captures a lifetime of reading, writing,  
and living to the fullest, from a true "American original" (_San Francisco Chronicle_).

### Author Biography

**JIM HARRISON (1937-2016)** was the author of thirty-nine other works of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including _Legends of the Fall_, _The Road Home_, _Returning to Earth_, and _The English Major_. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he had work published in twenty-seven languages.

**Number of Pages:** 336

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 8.8 x 6.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 13, 2022

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