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Returning To Earth : a Novel by Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016 is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In the universally-praised Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison has delivered a masterpiece-a tender, profound, and magnificent novel about life, death, and the possibility of finding redemption in unlikely places. Donald is a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. His condition deteriorating, he realizes no one will be able to pass on to his children their family history once he is gone. He begins dictating to his wife, Cynthia, stories he has never shared with anyone-as around him, his family struggles to lay him to rest with the same dignity with which he has lived. Over the course of the year following Donald's death, his daughter begins studying Chippewa ideas of death for clues about her father's religion, while Cynthia, bereft of the family she created to escape the malevolent influence of her own father, finds that redeeming the past is not a lost cause. Returning to Earth is a deeply moving book about origins and endings, making sense of loss, and living with honor for the dead. It is among the finest novels of Harrison's long, storied career, and confirms his standing as one of the most important American writers now working

Who reads Returning To Earth : a Novel?

Author

Harrison, Jim, 1937-2016

Publisher

New York: Grove Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.]: Distributed by Publishers Group West

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802143310

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

4.2 / 5 (428 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14