The English major

"It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn't." With these words, Jim Harrison sends his sixty-something protagonist, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission...

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Main Author: Harrison, Jim, 1937-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : House of Anansi Press, 2008.
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