Copyright © 2007 by Jim Harrison
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Harrison, Jim, 1937–
Returning to Earth / Jim Harrison,
p. cm.
ISBN-10: 0-8021-4331-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4331-0
1. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—Patients—Fiction. 2. Death—Fiction.
3. Indians—Mixed descent—Fiction. 4. Upper Peninsula (Mich.)—Fiction.
5. Family—Fiction. 6. Memory—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A67R4 2007
813’.54—dc22 2006050802
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