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Zusatztext "This is a sad! sweet love letter to a fading America! elevated beyond its simple premise by its sharp humour about aging and a quietly shocking ending?it's hard to think of a more purely likeable novel in recent times." Informationen zum Autor Michael Zadoorian is the author of Second Hand and The Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit: Stories . Klappentext In Michael Zadoorian's The Leisure Seeker the Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery. With Ella as his vigilant copilot, John steers their '78 Leisure Seeker RV along the forgotten roads of Route 66 toward Disneyland in search of a past they're having a damned hard time remembering. Yet Ella is determined to prove that, when it comes to life, you can go back for seconds—even when everyone says you can't. Zusammenfassung Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland! coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures Classics Official Selection Toronto Film Festival Venice Film Festival “ The Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life itself: joyous! painful! moving! tragic! mysterious! and not to be missed.”— Booklist ! starred review The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties! Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure! the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery. With Ella as his vigilant copilot! John steers their '78 Leisure Seeker RV along the forgotten roads of Route 66 toward Disneyland in search of a past they're having a damned hard time remembering. Yet Ella is determined to prove that! when it comes to life! you can go back for seconds—even when everyone says you can't. ...
