The English Major - Hardcover

Harrison, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802118631 ISBN 13: 9780802118639

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2008

Synopsis

"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 into--and out of--himself, and it is vintage Harrison--reflective, big-picture American, and replete with wicked wit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0802118631
• ISBN 13: 9780802118639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304