The River Swimmer

Jim Harrison 

A New York Times bestseller, hailed by critics and embraced by readers, The River Swimmer is Jim Harrison at his most memorable: two men, one young and one older, confronting inconvenient loves and the encroachment of urbanity on nature.  In "The Land of Unlikenessd," Clive--a failed artist, reeling from a divorce--reluctantly returns to his family's Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother.  Coming home triggers a jolt of renewal--of ardor for his high school sweetheart, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting.  In "The River Swimmer," Harrison ventures into the magical as an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to swimming as an escape and sees otherworldly creatures in the water.