Dalva

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Summary: I cant believe a woman did not write this book!incredible
Review: I read Dalva after reading Julip, I am very pick with my authors and Jim Harrison along with Hemingway is my favourite, he has an amazing way of seeing people in the world one that I can relate to easily and that has changed my life.

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Summary: Jim Harrison in Toronto
Review: I went to see Jim Harrison at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. He was an old pirate with one eye, a moon face and walked with a cane. He was pissed drunk and rude and I loved it. I went with the wife of my producer who said, 'Dalva is a womans story' she said, 'and that man is as ugly as the hills. But God Love him.'

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Summary: Love is not too strong a word
Review: In contrast to the all-female book club that unanimously hated this book, I find Jim Harrison's female characters to be terrific. I don't expect my fictional characters to act exactly like real life people. Dalva is a romantic heroine for women of the 90s, despite her saddness. Read Dalva, then read the Road Home,Harrison's follow-up.

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Summary: A rare fictional creation
Review: Living on the coast of California, Dalva hears the deep silence of the Nebraska plains where she was born and longs for the son she had to give up for adoption when she was only sixteen. At forty-five, she has lead a life of many adventures, has had many lovers. Dalva is beautiful, fearless and tormented. Then Dalva starts a journey that will take her back to the origins of her family, to the lover of her youth, Duane, a half-Sioux, and to her pioneering great-grandfather whose diaries relate the violent annihilation of the Plains Indians. This novels tells the story of a remarkable modern woman's search for her son. She is depicted by Jim Harrison as a sensual woman, a woman who always subtly does the seducing of her lovers. I certainly was seduced by her!