num_pages: 254
description: It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn't. With these words Jim Harrison sends his sixty-something protagonist divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife on a road trip across America armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high school-teacher days twenty-some years before to a snake farm in Arizona owned by an old classmate; and to the high-octane existence of his son a big-time movie producer in San Francisco.The English Major is the map of a man's journey intoand out ofhimself and it is vintage Harrisonreflective big-picture American and replete with wicked wit.
language: English
title: The English Major
publisher: Grove Press