6 Document (s)

Dans ce dernier livre publié moins d'un mois avant sa mort, Jim Harrison a choisi de poursuivre ses mémoires sous la forme d'un texte à la troisième personne pour "échapper à l'illusion de réalité propre à l'autobiographie". Souvenirs d'enfance, découverte de la poésie, mariage, amour de la nature, célébration des plaisirs de la chair et de la table, alcools et paradis artificiels, Jim Harrison tisse le roman d'une vie. Véritable testament littéraire, Le Vieux Saltimbanque est à l'image de Big Jim : plus libre et provocateur que jamais, plus touchant aussi, en marge de toutes les conventions. (source éditeur)

The Big Seven sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan. Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in than he realizes his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader did. A family of outlaws, armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson's cleaning lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sunderson's advice on a crime novel he's writing which may not be fiction. Sunderson must struggle with the evil within himself and the far greater, more expansive evil of his neighbor