Coast to coast / Frederic Raphael.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raphael, Frederic, 1931-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Automobile travel--Fiction.

Automobile travel.

Marital conflict--Fiction.

Marital conflict.

Spouses--Fiction.

Spouses.

Middle-aged persons--Fiction.

Middle-aged persons.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

231 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

Catbird Press edition.

Place of Publication:

North Haven, CT : Catbird Press : Distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group, 1999.

Summary:

Frederic Raphael wrote the screenplay for Two for the Road, in which Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney comically battled their way across Europe. Thirty years later, Raphael sends a warring couple on the road again -- this time across the United States -- with humor that is sharp and dialogue that is even more inventive. Marion and Barnaby Pierce are a New England couple in their 60s who are selling their house and driving to Los Angeles to attend their son's wedding, give him Barnaby's vintage Jaguar, and then go their separate ways. On their journey, they pick at each other's weaknesses and betrayals with an edgy mixture of humor and cruelty. This is a sad but witty study of chagrin, where love, hatred, and self-hatred fuel rapidfire dialogue only a master screenwriter and novelist could manage.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain by Orion Publishing Group in 1998"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

0945774427

OCLC:

40163587