Publisher's Synopsis
The Road Home continues the story of Jim Harrison's captivating heroine Dalva and her peculiar and remarkable family. It encompasses the voices of Dalva's grandfather John Northridge, the austere, hard-living half-Sioux patriarch Naomi, the widow of his favourite son and namesake Paul, the first Northridge son, who lived in the shadow of his brother and Nelse, the son taken from Dalva at birth, who now has returned to find her. It is a family history drenched in suffering and joy, imbued with fierce independence and love, rooted in the Nebraska soil, and intertwined with the destiny of whites and Native Americans.Epic in scope, stretching from the close of the nineteenth century to the present day, The Road Home is a stunning and trenchant novel, written with the humour, humanity, and inimitable evocation of the American spirit that have delighted Jim Harrison's legion of fans.'a large-hearted wonderfully rich novel...read to have your tranquil life in the suburbs undermined, disturbed and perhaps dislocated' HELEN ELLIOTT, The Australian.'An epic in the true sense' MATT CONDON, Sun Herald.'an epic of Faulknerian proportions, leavened with a good measure of Native American and Zen;TOM BEVIER, Courier-Mail."Harrison is among the foremost writers of the literary generation that has succeeded Styron, Mailer, Jones and Updike." PHILIP CAPUTO"Harrison's storytelling instincts are nearly flawless." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW"Harison stands high among the writers of his generation." THE NEW YORKER"Jim harrison is a writer with immortality in him." THE SUNDAY TIMES (London)
