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The Leisure Seeker
Paperback
HumorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9780061671791
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Feb 1 2010
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
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.
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