The Beast God Forgot to Invent

by Jim Harrison

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Jim Harrison is an American master, and The Beast God Forgot to Invent is a book that The New York Times Book Review called "a big, wet, sloppy kiss [that] Harrison continues to plant on the face of life itself".

These are stories of culture and wildness, of men and beasts and where they overlap. A wealthy man retired to the Michigan woods narrates the tale of a younger man decivilized by brain damage. A Michigan Indian wanders Los Angeles, hobnobbing with starlets and screenwriters while he tracks an ersatz Native-American activist who stole his bearskin. An aging "alpha canine", the author of three dozen throwaway biographies, eats dinner with the ex-wife of his overheated youth, and must confront the man he used to be. As The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) put it, "The Beast God Forgot to Invent is a proud addition to the Harrison oeuvre. It is exhilarating to watch a master at work".

  • ISBN10 0871138212
  • ISBN13 9780871138217
  • Publish Date 31 December 2000
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 6 August 2003
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English