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Literary Fiction
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April 05, 2023
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April 05, 2023
From the New York Times–bestselling creator of Legends of the Fall: “Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold” (Tim McNulty, The Seattle Times).
“It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn’t.” With these phrases, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, shifting novel that sends a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming actual property shark of an ex-wife, on a highway journey throughout America.
Cliff is armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all of the states and state birds, the latter of which have been unjustly saddled with white males’s banal monikers up till now. His adventures take him by way of a whirlwind affair with a former pupil from his high-school-teacher days twenty-some years earlier than, to a “snake farm” in Arizona owned by an previous classmate, and to the high-octane existence of his son, a big-time film producer who has simply purchased an residence over the Presidio in San Francisco.
Jim Harrison’s riotous and shifting cross-country novel, The English Major, is the map of a person’s journey into, and out of, himself. It is classic Harrison—reflective, big-picture American, and replete with depraved wit.
“The English Major is to midlife crisis what The Catcher in the Rye is to adolescence.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
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