It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn t. With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that sends a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America. Cliff is armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds, the latter of which have been unjustly saddled with white men s banal monikers up until now. His adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high-school-teacher days twenty-some years...
It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn t. With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that sends a sixty-something man, divor...
A collection of three novellas, The Farmer's Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The English Major.
A collection of three novellas, The Farmer's Daughter is a memorable portrait of three decidedly unconventional American lives from the author of the ...