The Grand Tour
By Rich Kienzle and Adam O’Fallon Price
Read by John Pruden and R. C. Bray
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A bitingly funny, smart, and moving road novel about two hapless lost souls—an alcoholic Vietnam veteran turned bestselling author, and his awkward, shy college-student superfan—who form an unlikely connection on the world’s most disastrous book tour. Richard Lazar is advancing in years but regressing in life. After a career as a literary novelist that has ground to a halt and landed him in a trailer in Phoenix, Richard is surprised to find sudden success publishing a gritty memoir about his service in Vietnam. Sent on a book tour by his publishing house, Richard encounters his biggest (and really only) fan: an awkward, despondent student named Vance with issues of his own—an absentee father, a depressive mother, his own acute shyness. Soon Vance has volunteered to chauffeur Richard for the rest of the book tour, and the two embark on a disastrous but often hilarious cross-country trip. When things go wrong, Richard and Vance forge an unlikely bond between two misanthropes whose mutual insecurities and disdain for the world force both to look at each other, and their lives, in a more meaningful way. As they reach the end of the book tour, The Grand Tour ultimately becomes a moving tale of unlikely friendship that should catapult Adam O’Fallon Price into the company of such masters of all-American dyspepsia as Sam Lipsyte, David Gates, and Walter Kirn.
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Summary
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A bitingly funny, smart, and moving road novel about two hapless lost souls—an alcoholic Vietnam veteran turned bestselling author, and his awkward, shy college-student superfan—who form an unlikely connection on the world’s most disastrous book tour.
Richard Lazar is advancing in years but regressing in life. After a career as a literary novelist that has ground to a halt and landed him in a trailer in Phoenix, Richard is surprised to find sudden success publishing a gritty memoir about his service in Vietnam. Sent on a book tour by his publishing house, Richard encounters his biggest (and really only) fan: an awkward, despondent student named Vance with issues of his own—an absentee father, a depressive mother, his own acute shyness. Soon Vance has volunteered to chauffeur Richard for the rest of the book tour, and the two embark on a disastrous but often hilarious cross-country trip. When things go wrong, Richard and Vance forge an unlikely bond between two misanthropes whose mutual insecurities and disdain for the world force both to look at each other, and their lives, in a more meaningful way.
As they reach the end of the book tour, The Grand Tour ultimately becomes a moving tale of unlikely friendship that should catapult Adam O’Fallon Price into the company of such masters of all-American dyspepsia as Sam Lipsyte, David Gates, and Walter Kirn.
Editorial Reviews
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Unique glimpse of an author's life
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It’s not common place to read a story about an author’s book tour. Coupled with his adventure is his driver, a young man from a very small town who hooks up with the alcoholic Richard Lazar for the book, The Grand Tour. Lazar in his 60s peddling a very successful memoir of his Vietnam days; the driver, Vance, a young ambitious writer thrilled with the opportunity to be Lazar’s chauffeur for the first few stops, finds that they are a complimentary team, allowing Richard the opportunity to stay drunk most of the time. In the process, Vance is catapulted into adulthood in ways he didn’t imagine. Ultimately, they discover a psychological bond that assisted both in their growing up process. R. C. Bray’s reading is spot on.
Details
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Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD, MP3 CD |
Category: | Fiction/Literary |
Runtime: | 10.85 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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