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Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career and has lost his passion for living-the trip is a weeklong opportunity to evaluate his past, his future and himself.
A raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships.
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"A fresh take... credit screenwriter Pickett for coming up with a debut that goes some distance... Skillful work about a friendship between two ultimately likeable guys." --Kirkus Reviews
"[A] lively debut... Pickett takes his readers on a jolly ride." --Publishers Weekly
"A buddy novel in the cinematic vein of Swingers... Pickett plays the sex-and-the-single man angle for all its worth here, nodding occasionally at such larger themes as friendship and romance. Call it Nick Hornby lite." --Booklist
SIDEWAYS is the journey of two men, Miles and Jack, as they leave Las Vegas en route for Santa Ynez and Jack's impending nuptials. For Jack the weekend represents his final days of freedom, while for Miles, who has divorced his wife, lost his money and his passion for life, the week long road trip becomes an opportunity to evaluate his past, future and self. A raucous road trip complete with fine wine, SIDEWAYS is a thought-provoking and often hilarious novel about men, friendships and human relationships.
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- PublisherSt Martin's Press
- Publication date2005
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A rollicking road novel that is the basis of award-winning director Alexander Payne's new movie of the same name. Sideways describes the journey of two men, Miles and Jack, as they leave Las Vegas en route for Jack's impending nuptials in Santa Ynez. For Jack, the weekend is his final days of freedom, for Miles the trip becomes an opportunity to evaluate his life. A raucous road trip complete with wine and beautiful women, Sideways is a thought-provoking and often humorous novel about men, friendships and human relationships. Film out now. Is the story of two friends, Miles and Jack, going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780312342517
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. First Edition. A raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Rex Pickett's Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships.The basis for the 2004 comedy-drama road movie of the same name starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church.Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career and has lost his passion for living-the trip is a week long opportunity to evaluate his past, his future and himself. Seller Inventory # DADAX0312342519
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Book Description paperback. Condition: New. 1st. About the AuthorREX PICKETT is a young screenwriter who lives in Los Angeles. Sideways is his first novel.Product DescriptionA raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Rex Pickett's Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships.The basis for the 2004 comedy-drama road movie of the same name starring Paul Giamatti and Thomas Haden Church.Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career and has lost his passion for living-the trip is a week long opportunity to evaluate his past, his future and himself.Review"A fresh take. credit screenwriter Pickett for coming up with a debut that goes some distance. Skillful work about a friendship between two ultimately likeable guys." -Kirkus Reviews"[A] lively debut. Pickett takes his readers on a jolly ride." -Publishers Weekly"A buddy novel in the cinematic vein of Swingers. Pickett plays the sex-and-the-single man angle for all its worth here, nodding occasionally at such larger themes as friendship and romance. Call it Nick Hornby lite." -BooklistExcerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.SidewaysFRIDAY: UNCORKEDThe sun poured bright parallelograms of mote-swirling light through the venetian blinds of my rundown, rent-controlled house in Santa Monica. I was moving frenetically from bedroom to living room packing for a road trip with my best friend, Jack Cole. We were headed for the Santa Ynez Valley and a week of wine tasting before he was to be married the following Sunday. Though I couldn't afford this impromptu excursion, I desperately needed to get out of L.A. The place was suffocating me, fueling paralyzing panic attacks that had been a chronic affliction of mine over the years.The phone rang, but the number that materialized on my caller ID didn't register so I stood frozen over the answering machine, waiting."Miles, is Roman," my landlord began in his Transylvanian-sounding drawl. "It is the fifteenth of September and I still not receive rent. Every month we go through this. If I don't get check by tomorrow I have no choice but to begin eviction. I don't like this. You are my friend. I know you are starving writer "I levered the volume on the answering machine to 0, the hair on my forearms tingling. The rest of Roman's exhortation I could recite from memory. He would warm up with how lenient he had been, then he would launch into a foaming-at-the-mouth diatribe about how my financial shortcomings were the cause of his elevated blood pressure and a host of other onuses that daily racked him on the property owner's cross. His jeremiads were worthy of Job and their intent was to make me feel guilty and scrape together the $850 in question.I resumed packing, the call pecking away at the edges of my already frayed psyche. Into my travel-scarred suitcase I threw a couple of bleak-themed novels I knew I would never crack. For good measure I addedThe Oxford Companion to Wine, Jancis Robinson's brilliant and exhaustive tome on everything you ever wanted to know about the universe of wine. It was the perfect book to calm the nerves at three in the morning when you wake in an unfamiliar motel room in a cold sweat, trembling from excess. After all, Jack and I were journeying to wine country, and I wanted to have the one book that had supplied me with all the basics of my one undying passion-besides, of course, the unrepentant penning of two unpublished novels and scores of unproduced screenplays.As I was about to shutter the house the phone rang a second time, jangling. Seller Inventory # BKZN9780312342517
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