The English major
By: Jim Harrison.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780802118639
Subjects: Life change events -- Fiction.; Middle-aged men -- Fiction.; Teachers -- Fiction.; Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.; Family -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Cliff, a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, takes 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.
Notes: Map of the United States on endpapers.