Jim Harrison has been called a writer with immortality in him by London's Sunday Times, and the New York Times Book Review has written that [his] storytelling instincts are nearly flawless. Harrison's novel Returning to Earth was hailed by The Plain Dealer as an artistic achievement worthy of Faulkner. The English Major is a wryly funny novel that sparkles with the generous humanity of Harrison's vision. In it, he sends Cliff - a sixty-something former teacher, divorced and robbed of his farm by a real-estate shark of an ex-wife - on a road trip across America. Armed with a childhood puzzle and a mission to rename all the states and state birds, Cliff's adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student to a snake farm in Arizona owned by an old classmate to the high-octane existence of his big-time movie producer son 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 and sharp with wicked wit. | The English Major by Jim Harrison, Paperback | Indigo Chapters