Jim Harrison (Get this book) This essential collection of six novellas offers an omnibus look at Brown Dog, a pure Harrison creation and a glorious character who will make readers howl with delight. In these stories, he shambles from a day-to-day set of misadventures arising from some illegal salvage diving to a loopy picaresque jaunt through Los Angeles ("I just want my bearskin back, " he says), to something much more profound and redemptive, standing in as a father figure to several vulnerable Indian and partially Indian children, despite the absence of much paternal influence in his own life. Often moving, frequently funny, these 500 pages offer the best way to get acquainted (or reacquainted) with one of literature's great characters--Publisher's Weekly
