The river swimmer : novellas / Jim Harrison.
Other Titles: Land of unlikeness.
River swimmer.
Author: Harrison, Jim, 1937-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : [Berkeley, Calif.] : Grove Press : Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2013.
ISBN: 9780802120731 (hbk.)
0802120733 (hbk.)
Description: 198 p. ; 22 cm.
Subject: Older men Fiction.
Boys Fiction.
Life change events Fiction.
Michigan Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Short stories.
Contents: The land of unlikeness -- The river swimmer.
Summary: Two novellas provide insight into the human condition as a sixty-year-old art history academic embarks on an unexpected journey of discovery and a young farm boy is drawn to the water of Lake Michigan as an escape.