Bill Warrington's Last Chance

Name: Bill Warrington's Last Chance
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ISBN: 9780670021611

ISBN-10: 067002161X

ISBN-13: 9780670021611

Edition: 2010

Authors: James King

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/5/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

James King is the author of four previous novels: Faking, Blue Moon, Transformations , and Pure Inventions . He is also the author of eight works of biography, the subjects of which include William Blake, Margaret Laurence, Jack McClelland, and Farley Mowat. His biography of Herbert Read, The Last Modern , was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award. James King lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and teaches at McMaster University in the Department of English.