The New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry—including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth—Jim Harrison was one of our most beloved and acclaimed writers, adored by both readers and critics. Sundog is a powerful novel about the life and loves of a foreman named Robert Corvus Strang, who worked on giant dam projects around the world until he was crippled in a fall down a three-hundred-foot dam. Now as he tries to regain use of his legs, he has a chance to reassess his life, and a blasé journalist who has heard of Strang’s reputation in the field arrives to draw him out about his various incarnations. Strang—who has the violently heightened sensibilities of a man who has gone to the limits and back—recounts his monumental life moving from Michigan to Africa and the Amazon, including his several marriages and children, and dozens of lovers. “A feisty, passionate novel” (Newsday) from a writer whose “storytelling instincts are nearly flawless” (The New York Times), Sundog is a story as true and gripping as real life, and ultimately as victorious.
Industry Reviews
“Harrison’s storytelling instincts are nearly flawless.”—The New York Times
“Set in the heart of America, his stories move with random power and reach, in the manner of Melville and Faulkner.”—The Boston Globe
“Harrison is brilliant at portraying this wild country . . . The pulse of Sundog . . . is the concern with life’s meaningfulness . . . This is a book of the spirit.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“First-rate fiction . . . told with a poet’s grace and passion. The characters are rich and complex.”—Detroit Free Press
“A feisty, passionate novel . . . A kind of intellectual detective story.”—Newsday
“Jim Harrison is a writer with immortality in him.”—The London Sunday Times
“Harrison is among the foremost writers of the literary generation that has succeeded Styron, Mailer, Jones and Updike.”—Philip Caputo, author of Rumors of War
“Harrison . . . evokes the grandeur of Michigan’s semi-wilderness in this quietly beautiful book.”—ALA Booklist
