JIM HARRISON (1937–2016) was the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine previous books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim fellowship, his work is published in twenty-seven languages.

“A quiet triumph . . . Joseph is a man suffocated by everything he loves most in the world: the land and its ghosts, love and friendship, integrity. Yes, it is the old story again. Taking it and making it new, as Harrison has done, is a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes. But then so are all good novels.”—The Washington Post“A beautiful novel.”—The Boston Globe“Farmer is a sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life . . . The characters are so real that often my eyes filled up with tears for their plight, their human helplessness.”—Richard Brautigan“Superb.”—Saturday Review“In Harrison’s hand the story is fresh with a gentle intuition.”—Houston Chronicle

JIM HARRISON (1937–2016) was the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine previous books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim fellowship, his work is published in twenty-seven languages.

“A quiet triumph . . . Joseph is a man suffocated by everything he loves most in the world: the land and its ghosts, love and friendship, integrity. Yes, it is the old story again. Taking it and making it new, as Harrison has done, is a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes. But then so are all good novels.”—The Washington Post“A beautiful novel.”—The Boston Globe“Farmer is a sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life . . . The characters are so real that often my eyes filled up with tears for their plight, their human helplessness.”—Richard Brautigan“Superb.”—Saturday Review“In Harrison’s hand the story is fresh with a gentle intuition.”—Houston Chronicle

JIM HARRISON (1937–2016) was the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine previous books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Returning to Earth. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim fellowship, his work is published in twenty-seven languages.

“A quiet triumph . . . Joseph is a man suffocated by everything he loves most in the world: the land and its ghosts, love and friendship, integrity. Yes, it is the old story again. Taking it and making it new, as Harrison has done, is a miracle on the order of the loaves and fishes. But then so are all good novels.”—The Washington Post“A beautiful novel.”—The Boston Globe“Farmer is a sensitive, powerful love story about a man on the cutting edge of life . . . The characters are so real that often my eyes filled up with tears for their plight, their human helplessness.”—Richard Brautigan“Superb.”—Saturday Review“In Harrison’s hand the story is fresh with a gentle intuition.”—Houston Chronicle