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Returning to Earth

Returning to Earth

by Jim Harrison

2006Michigan, fictionFiction, family lifeAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisFictionPatients
4.0
Open Library
Open Library

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Michigan, fictionFiction, family lifeAmyotrophic lateral sclerosisFictionPatientsDeath
First published 2006

About the author

Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison

11 December 1937 – 26 March 2016

James Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, the son of a county agricultural agent. He was blinded in one eye in childhood. His father and sister died in a car accident when he was 21. He attended Michigan State University and received a B.A. in 1960 and an M.A in 1964 in Comparative Literature. After working as an assistant professor of English at State University of New York, Stony Brook, he became a full-time writer.

Author

Jim Harrison

First published

2006

Pages

272

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

10

Language

English

Publisher

Grove Press

ISBN

9780802143310

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