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Returning to Earth (Audio CD)

by Jim Harrison (Author), Traci Svendsgaard (Narrator), Ray Porter (Narrator)
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Harrison's novel of a dying man's retelling of his complex family history requires multiple readers to bring it to life. Svendsgaard, Porter, Weiner and Garcia all stick close to the rueful and world-weary, with long pauses and a subtle downturn of intonation marking their readings. They tag-team Harrison's prose, which shifts back and forth between the reminiscences of its protagonists, with Svendsgaard often leaping in to amend or second the stray thoughts of dying Donald Burkett. Weiner, as Donald, gives his reading just the right flat, clipped tone, each sentence ending abruptly and without warning. Donald's memories, in Weiner's rendering, are less the florid interior dramas of a romantically rendered past than the honest remembrance of what once was. The other readers follow Weiner's lead, echoing his spare performance ably and underscoring his fine work.
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Donald Burkett is 45 and dying. The Chippewa-Finnish man, first introduced in TRUE NORTH, determines to chronicle his family's history before he dies of Lou Gehrig's disease. The exceptional cast, including Traci Svendsgaard, Ray Porter, Tom Weiner, and Paul Michael Garcia, present his story, sometimes harshly, sometimes tenderly, but always unsentimentally and truthfully. Beginning in 1871, with the ancestors who came to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and moving between past and present, Donald describes lives lived against a background of nature, a world filled with violence, love, the unknown, and the possible. In this beautiful, spiritual book, the narrators offer impressive performances, bringing a welcome clarity to each human moment. S.J.H. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Seamless, Fluent, Predictable and Dull: Classic Harrison, in Short!!, Jan 3 2008
By Criticaster "'Hugh'" (Great White North) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Returning to Earth (Paperback)
As with John Updike, one can't shake the impression that he can write endless reams of this stuff in his sleep: a writer of voluble and expert prose that eventually dulls the senses and provides neither great heights nor great depths because the writer himself is capable of neither. One admires his skills while reading it but having finished one notices that it has left no permanent impression.

Once detached from the hypnotic setting of his prose, one finds that the work itself is little more than a succession of thin, etiolated cliches. A consistent flaw in all his writing. It's as if he keys his writing to the washed-out sensibilities of the editors and reviewers of 'Esquire' or the 'New Yorker' in order to make a good living--which he very evidently DOES, despite his hypocritical swipes at 'Republicans' and the evil rich.

Despite all the hyperventilating accolades of his uncritical groupies--which appear to be mostly female and 'bohemian' in a well-heeled and risk-averse way--this is a novel that will change no one's life.



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5.0 out of 5 stars AN INTIMATE, COMPELLING VOICE PRODUCTION, Mar 16 2007
By Gail Cooke (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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Listening to the quartet of talented actors who read this moving book is very much like having producer's seats at a stellar Broadway production. The rendering is intimate, compelling, and completely sweeps you away.

Traci Svendsgaard is a versatile performer, narrating such diverse titles as The New Rules to College Admissions and this touching reflection upon life by a dying man. Ray Porter is a consummate ensemble player with numerous TV and film appearances to his credit. His diction is clear, concise. British-American actor Tom Weiner is also a producer, director and writer - experiences that add to the luster of his narrations. Active with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Paul Michael Garcia's stage trained voice is very much like music to the ears.

With Returning to Earth, Jim Harrison's sequel to the acclaimed True North (2004), we return to Upper Michigan and again meet Donald Burkett who is now an adult in middle age and dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. As he tells us at the onset he didn't know too much about Lou Gehrig as his sports were track and football. But that was then and this is now when he feels compelled to tell his family history, untold stories from the past that his children have not heard.

Cynthia, his wife, and their two grown children, are with their father for his last days. Half Finnish and half Chippewa, Donald has pretty much come to terms with his impending death. The same cannot be said for his family, especially daughter Claire who adores him.

As the narrative continues each contributes to the weaving of their family's story, recognizing their roots, being grateful for what is and has been good in their lives, and coming to terms with acceptance.

Recognized as one of the foremost authors of our time Harrison has again crafted an unforgettable novel that will strike chords within all of us.

- Gail Cooke
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