{"product_id":"the-english-majorbooks","title":"The English Major","description":"\u003cp\u003eJim 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 \u003cem\u003eReturning to Earth\u003c\/em\u003e was hailed by The Plain Dealer as an artistic achievement worthy of Faulkner.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe English Major\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eThe English Major\u003c\/em\u003e is the map of a man's journey into -- and out of -- himself, and it is vintage Harrison: reflective and sharp with wicked wit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jim Harrison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42421834514656,"sku":"9780887848353","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/BNCImageAPI_32db21b2-7d59-41c4-b62c-eab3e69e4c4f.jpg?v=1655627920","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-english-majorbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}