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The Ancient Minstrel   Jim Harrison
A collection of three novellas, a form that Harrison mastered. The first of the three novellas is a slightly fictionalized memoir. The second is another of his exquisite portrayals of an idiosyncratic, wonderful life. The third is distilled from Harrison’s 2015 novel The Big Seven, or the novel developed out of this novella. Deeply sad that Harrison died recently, that sadness saturated my reading, especially the memoir. I will miss his rambling style and robust characters.