Reviews for Off to the side

The average rating for Off to the side based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-10-03 00:00:00 Richard Krauss This book was an inside look at an author I have to come to enjoy, the late Jim Harrison. I loved this memoir by a great old "YOOPIE.";)

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-22 00:00:00 Kenn Geary I lost track of how many times I made Paul listen to a passage from this ornery memoir which is a crazy thicket of anecdotes and witticisms about writing, drinking, eating, working, not working, failing, failing some more, and succeeding in the most improbable of ways. Harrison's charmed and cursed and crusty life is perhaps not the best "how-to" for writers, yet I found the ups and downs of his writing life to be fascinating. Of all the weird details, I'm most taken by his actual need, when he was younger, to sit still in thickets in order to calm his mind and focus his good eye (he's blind in the left). Also, I don't know how the man isn't dead at this point -- from the alcohol, the cocaine, the gout, the years of unpaid taxes, the Hollywood shenanigans, and the hunting mishaps -- but thank god he isn't. One of the best books I've read this year; as always with good books, I'm sorry I didn't know about it sooner.