Beast God Forgot to Invent

"[T]he collection's final entry, "I Forgot to Go to Spain," glows brighter than even [the volume's other] two novellas combined....The novella all but boils over with dreams--dreams of literature, love, loss, of all those epic L-words that too few writers seem brave enough, in these chilly times, to address on anything but ironic terms. [It] is imbued with all the gravelly melancholy of a Tom Waits ballad, but it never once, despite that swarm of L-words, forces sentiment; the autumnal passion that drives the tale is never less than tactile. I could go on--about the casual lack of geometry and astounding texture of Harrison's prose, about the delicacy of his characterizations--but why? "I Forgot to Go to Spain" is above my twerpy praise. It's simply thrilling to see a writer reach for the sky and actually grab it."Harrison, Jim is the author of 'Beast God Forgot to Invent', published 2001 under ISBN 9780802138361 and ISBN 0802138365.