Amazon.com description: Product Description: In this collection of novellas from Jim Harrison, the title novella is about an aging writer who spars with his estranged wife, weathers the slings and arrows of literary success, and tries to cope with the sow he buys on a whim. In ''Eggs,'' a woman reminisces about staying in London with her grandparents and collecting eggs at their country house. Years later, having never had a child, she attempts to do so. And in ''The Case of the Howling Buddhas,'' retired Detective Sunderson -- a recurring character from Harrison's New York Times bestseller The Big Seven -- is hired as a private investigator to look into a bizarre cult that achieves satori by howling along with howler monkeys at the zoo.