A Really Big Lunch
Jim Harrison
Atlantic Books
<p><i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as 'the poet laureate of appetite' (<i>Dallas Morning News</i>). <i>A Really Big Lunch</i> collects many of his food pieces for the first time - and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve.</p><p> Jim Harrison's legendary gourmandise is on full display in <i>A Really Big Lunch</i>. From the titular <i>New Yorker</i> piece about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to pieces from <i>Brick</i>, <i>Playboy</i>, the Kermit Lynch Newsletter and more on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, <i>A Really Big Lunch</i> is shot through with Harrison's pointed aperçus and keen delight in the pleasures of the senses. And between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison's life over the...</p>