The English Major

It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn't. With these words, Jim Harrison beginsa riotous, movingnovel that sends a sixtysomething man on a quest of selfrediscovery. Newly divorced and robbed of his farm by his real estate shark of an exwife, 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 twentysome years before, to a snake farm in Arizona owned by an old classmate, and to the highoctane existence of his son, a bigtime movie producer. A map of a man's journey intoand out ofhimself, The English Major is vintage Harrison: reflective, bigpicture American, and replete with wicked wit.