The English Major, Jim Harrison
The English Major, Jim Harrison
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The English Major

Author: Jim Harrison

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Unabridged: 7 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/07/2008

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) was the author of over thirty-five books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, including Legends of the Fall, The Road Home, The English Major, and The Farmer’s Daughter. His writing appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, and the New York Times. He earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountains & Plains Booksellers Association. His work has been recognized worldwide and published in twenty-two languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rick on February 10, 2013

Having struggled through the overly plotted machinations of Gone Girl it was a pleasure to dive into Jim Harrison's shaggy dog story road trip and reflection on late middle age crisis. When you are reading Harrison you cannot help but hope and feel that the fictional characters are proxy!s for the a......more

Goodreads review by Janet on January 08, 2009

I really loved the author's "Returning to Earth" and when I saw he had a new book out, I jumped on it. And while I saw some similar elements in this story--namely, Michigan and Native American references, I didn't like the main character in the way I liked the last ones. This guy was a dirty old man......more

Goodreads review by Jonfaith on April 17, 2022

Better than the collections of novellas but not near the grandeur of Dalva. Cliff is sixty year old man, formerly a teacher in small town Michigan and for twenty five years a farmer he finds himself outside of his previous life. His wife has left him and sold the farm of which he receives but a tent......more

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