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A Really Big Lunch
- Author
- Jim Harrison
- Narrator
- Joe Barrett
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 24 March 2017
- Run Time
- 8 hours 47 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food. A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time—and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.
Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in this book, from the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Newsletter, and more. A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed comments and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And, between the lines, the pieces give glimpses of Harrison’s life over the last three decades.
A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.
Critics Review
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“Jim Harrison is the Henry Miller of food writing. His passion is infectious.”
Wall Street Journal
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“A Really Big Lunch…brings him roaring to the page again in all his unapologetic immoderacy, with spicy bon mots and salty language.”
NPR
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“Harrison’s enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well…His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp.”
Boston Globe
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“Showcases [Harrison’s] irascible wit and lust for life.”
Newsday
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“Sage and succulent essays…[with] Harrison’s searing wit and capacious heart.”
Shelf Awareness (starred review)
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“A celebration of eating well and drinking even better as a recipe for the good life.”
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“His gusto sparkles throughout this collection of magazine essays on food.”
Publishers Weekly
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Details
- Author
- Jim Harrison
- Narrator
- Joe Barrett
- Duration
- 8 hours 47 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 March 2017
- ISBN
- 9781538404874
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Cookery / food and drink
Synopsis
Jim Harrison’s legendary gourmandise is on full display in A Really Big Lunch. From the titular New Yorker piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses to pieces from Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch’s newsletter, and others, from the relationship between hunter and prey to the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines, the pieces give glimpses of Harrison’s life over the last three decades. A Really Big Lunch is a literary delight that will satisfy every appetite.
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