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the follow-up to Sideways
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4.1 • 98 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The follow-up novel to the blockbuster Sideways tracks the continuing story of Miles Raymond and his buddy Jack. It's seven years later. Miles has written a novel that has been made into a wildly successful movie, and the movie has changed his life. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles's mom, has suffered a stroke that's left her wheelchair-bound and wasting away in assisted-living. She desperately wants to live with her sister in Wisconsin. When Miles gets invited to be master of ceremonies at a Pinot Noir festival in Oregon, he hatches a harebrained road trip. With Jack as his co-pilot, he leases a handicapped-equipped rampvan, hires a pot-smoking Filipina caretaker and, with his mother's rascally Yorkie in tow, they take off for Wisconsin via Oregon's fabled Willamette Valley, where Miles is Master of ceremonies of the International Pinot Festival. It is a road novel for the smart set and wine lover, and anything but predictable.
Customer Reviews
Fun to read
This book is fun to read. The writing is a bit pretentious. But the fun makes up for it.
Brilliant!
They better make a movie of this book too. Laugh out loud funny in so many pages.
Awesome follow up to one of my favorite books ever
I thought it would be tough to beat the first chapter of Miles and Jack's epic journey through Cali wine country, but Pickett has nailed it. While the setting has changed to the "more esteemed" Pinot growing state of Oregon, the adventures and humor both rival if not top the anecdotes in Sideways. PS....some very special guests from the first novel make cameos. Enjoy! And drink something special when enjoying this one.....Just no Merlot.