The Leisure Seeker: A Novel

ISBN: 0061671797

Author: Zadoorian, Michael

Condition: New

Now a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures ClassicsOfficial SelectionToronto Film FestivalVenice Film FestivalThe Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed.-Booklist, starred reviewThe 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.