- James Bolivar DiGriz (Fictitious character), Fiction
Of all of Harry Harrison's many great books and series, the Stainless Steel Rat series with Slippery Jim DiGriz stands apart. In this book, Jim is out for revenge against Captain Garth - neither the rank nor the name are real - who is responsible for the death of Jim's mentor, The Bishop.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Harry Harrison
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, London: Bantam Ltd., Bantam Spectra
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781441881526
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Harry Max Harrison was born Henry Maxwell Dempsey in Stamford, Connecticut. He moved with his family to New York early in his childhood. On his 18th birthday, having graduated from high school, he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps, and serves as an armourer, gunnery instructor, truck driver, and military police officer. When the war ended, he became an art student at both the Hunter College in New York City and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Upon graduation, he became a freelance graphic artist, providing illustrations for book covers, magazines, and comic books such as Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. He also began contributing articles to these magazines. In 1952, he moved
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