Off to the Side: A Memoir.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Near Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In this memoir, Harrison traces his upbringing in Michigan amid the austerities of the Depression and the Second World War, and the seemingly greater austerities of his starchy Swedish forebears. He chronicles his coming-of-age, from a boy drunk with books to a young man making his way among fellow writers he deeply admires ? including Peter Matthiessen, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and Allen Ginsberg. Harrison discusses forthrightly the life-changing experience of becoming a father, and the minor cognitive dissonance that ensued when this boy from the "heartland" somehow ended up a highly paid Hollywood screenwriter. Item #28734
ISBN: 0871138603
Price: $95.00