Off to the Side : A Memoir SIGNED Jim Harrison / NOT Personalized! Hardcover First Edition 2002

 ABOUT THIS: For nearly forty years Jim Harrison has been one of America's most beloved writers, a literary giant who has given us American classics like Dalva, Legends of the Fall, and The Road Home. And he is perhaps just as loved for the spirit from which he writes—devoted to the senses, staunchly unpretentious, and ever mindful of the dangers of straying too far from our origins. It is this spirit of which The Oregonian wrote, "The magic of writing as good as Harrison's is that it can bridge the gulf of human separation." Now, for the first time, Jim Harrison has put pen to paper to write about his own life—a life that he captures with a riveting directness and a delightful, resonant music. In Off to the Side, which Publishers Weekly praised as "a worthy capstone to a fascinating career," Harrison writes about his upbringing in Michigan, the austerities of life amid the Depression and the Second World War, and the seemingly greater austerities of his starchy Swedish forebears, who have inspired so much of his writing. He traces his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with books to a young man making his way among fellow writers he deeply admired—writers like Tom McGuane, Philip Caputo, Peter Matthiessen, Robert Lowell, W H. Auden, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Allen Ginsberg, among others. Harrison writes forthrightly about the life-changing experience of becoming a father, and the minor cognitive dissonance when this boy from the "heartland" somehow ended up a highly paid Hollywood screen-writer. He gives free rein to his "seven obsessions"— 

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