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“It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn't.” With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that sends a sixty-something man on a quest of self-rediscovery. Newly divorced and robbed of his farm by his real estate shark of an ex-wife, Cliff is off on a road trip across America, on 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 teaching 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. A map of a man's journey into—and out of—himself, The English Major is vintage Harrison: reflective, big-picture American, and replete with wicked wit.
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"Funny, spirited…Harrison is consistently witty and engaging."
Publishers Weekly
"It's never too early to put aside a great Father's Day gift. Wives and daughters of America: For your reading Papa, this ribald, questing, utterly charming and Zen-serious novel about being male, sixty and (well, almost) alone, is the book of the year. Guys, if you can't wait to get going, you ought to just plunk down your money…right away and follow Cliff's trail."
Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio Book Reviews
"This ribald, questing, utterly charming and Zen-serious novel about being male, sixty and (well, almost) alone, is the book of the year."
National Public Radio Book Reviews