Jim Harrison s fiction is diverse in its genres, protagonists, and settings: from novel to novella from comically masculine rogue to the psychically scarred female from wilderness to city. This study examines the metaphors Harrison uses to offer critical entrance into his fiction food, place, ecological concerns, journey, "soul history," and region. Harrison's fiction contains the underlying currents of alienation and lost identity, and he uses these currents imbedded in modern life to explore the viability of the mythic quest and the American Dream.This study, the first full length...