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Published on Aug 05, 2010 | 304 Pages
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A magnificent debut about a man’s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride
Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer’s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April’s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them.
In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, Bill Warrington’s Last Chance speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.
A magnificent debut about a man’s odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride
Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer’s and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime of damage to his estranged adult children, Bill takes off with his fifteen-year-old granddaughter April on a cross-country drive, bound for San Francisco, where she dreams of becoming a rock star. As the unlikely pair heads west, Bill leaves clues intended to force his three children-including April’s frantic mother-to overcome their mutual distrust and long-held grievances to work together to find them.
In this dazzling road trip novel, James King masterfully explores themes of aging, sibling rivalry, family dysfunction, and coming of age, against a backdrop of the American heartland. Unflinching, funny, and poignant, Bill Warrington’s Last Chance speaks to that universal longing for familial reconciliation, love, and forgiveness.
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James King
James King lives and works in Wilton, Connecticut. His non-fiction work has been published in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and New York Daily News. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds an M.A. in Writing from Manhattanville College. Bill Warrington’s Last Chance is his first novel.
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