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短篇小说Father Daughter，发表在 Mar. 29, 2004期的《纽约客》上。
Father Daughter这篇小说，简单
别致。父亲去学校里看女儿，和女儿一起在饭馆里吃三明治，在酒吧里喝酒，父
亲希望女儿暑假回家来，但女儿总是含糊其词，他们的人生观大相径庭。父亲刚
从监狱里出来，他曾是一个聪明、富有的商人，却因为作假逃税，受了九个月的
牢狱之灾。虽然他还是很有钱，但他整个变了一个人，女儿虽然注意到了他的转
变，但未必全部理解。女儿说他开始变得有点象优柔寡断、患得患失的爷爷。但
父亲说，他绝不要变成爷爷。牢狱使他转变，让他想起生活，想起离婚的妻子，
隔膜的女儿，想起自己的父母，可惜这些似乎已经有些晚了。
这篇小说整体一般，但Jim Harrison在这么短小的篇幅里，揉进了这么丰富的层 次，也是功力非凡。
Jim Harrison是一个相当多产的 作家, 诗歌、小说、散文、甚至剧本（Wolf）都有涉猎。在他的短文Why I Write, or Not里面，他说：
... historically art and literature are as natural as the migration of birds or the inevitable collision of love and death.
关于写作，他有这样的建议：
... don't do it unless you're willing to give up your entire life ... And Einstein was on the money when he said that he had no admiration for scientists who select thin pieces of board and drive countless holes in them. You should always want your work to be better than your capabilities, since settling for less is a form of artistic AIDS.
他的重要作品包括：
《Legends of the Fall》(1976) -- may well be the best set of novellas to appear in this country during the last quarter century -- The New York Times Book Review
《The Raw and the Cooked》, and
《The Beast God Forgot to Invent》
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