Coast to Coast

Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy family. They are leaving on a trip across America in a vintage jaguar which Barnaby intends to give his son who is getting married in Los Angeles. Their long drive from coast to coast is planned to include a number of stops: the first to deposit their dog with Marion's pious, bitter sister in upstate New York.At every stop there are memories and surprises as Barnaby and Marion live and re-live their secret dramas and, in the allusive, edgy dialogues of a long-married couple, reveal more about themselves than they care to confess. In Minneapolis, they find that their daughter, Stacey, is pregnant by one man and living with another; in Chicago, Barnaby's old writing partner, now a millionaire businessman, is unwisely lured into an old vaudeville routine; in Seattle, a meeting with a newspaper editor who once loved Marion re-opens old wounds; and in Los Angeles, their other daughter, Zara, who now calls herself Zenobia, turns out to be a shockingly unsociable member of her brother's wedding.

Product details

• Authors: Frederic Raphael, Raphael Frederic
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.08.2013
• EAN: 9781448213641
• ISBN: 978-1-4482-1364-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; USA, FICTION / Literary, 20th Century, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages