The English Major by Jim Harrison – Review

The English Major: A Novel by Jim Harrison

“The English Major,” revisits some of Harrison’s longtime preoccupations: travel and literature, food and fishing; an engagement with the natural world against a backdrop of war (in this case Iraq); and our nation’s struggle of origin against the Native Americans, whose suffering forms a pounding subtext — if not text — in nearly all of Harrison’s fiction. “As the landscape unfolds it’s all we have to offer and it’s not even ours,” notes Cliff, the narrator of “The English Major.” “We were always an army of occupation. You know that if you read history.”

Book Review – ‘The English Major,’ by Jim Harrison – Review – NYTimes.com.