Harrison, Jim, — Off to the Side: a memoir (uncorrected proof).

NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, (2002). Fine lg sz PB. Harrison writes about his upbringing in Michigan, austerities of life amid the Depression and WWII, his starchy Swedish. forebears, and how a boy from the "heartland" ended up a highly paid Hollywood screenwriter and world-renowned novelist. He gives free rein to his 7 obsessions: alcohol, food, stripping, hunting and fishing (and dogs), religion, the road and our place in the nature world which he elucidates with earthy wisdom and an elegant sense of connectedness. The New York Times Book Review called his work "a big, wet, sloppy kiss Harrison continues to plant on the face of life itself.".