True North (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jim Harrison
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: From the 1960's to the 1980's
- Setting: The Upper Peninsula of Michigan
- Principal Characters: David Burkett, Cynthia Burkett, David Burkett III, Fred, Jesse, Clarence, Laurie, Riva, Vernice
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Parents and children, Love or romance, 1980’s, Rape, Fathers, Michigan, Wood
- Locales: Michigan
In his memoir Off to the Side (2002), Jim Harrison leaps from anecdote to anecdote in his description of his personal history, touching briefly upon the various obsessions that informed his sensibilities and upon the episodes that defined his artistic identity and helped him develop as an artist and a man. Although his book True North is a novel and not a memoir, a work of fiction as opposed to autobiography, it nevertheless follows the form of biography in many ways. Typically, novels told in the first-person voice are tightly focused, taking place over a relatively brief...
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