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.

Vertical

Humor & Entertainment

Pickett, Rex

Humor

Loose Gravel Press

Invisible Diction

Literature & Fiction

Tills, Steve

Poetry

Sideways and Vertical, 2 Book Collector's Edition *Signed by Author*

Rex Pickett

The sequel to Sideways, this book follows the unpredictable and humorous exploits of a now-successful author, Miles, and his struggling buddy Jack as they venture into Oregon's gorgeous Willamette Valley with Miles' mother and a pot-smoking Filipion Care Nurse. Like Sideways, it evokes humor and sympathy as well as appreciation for the author's amazing second act. Better, richer than Sideways, wrote Kirk Honeycutt of the Hollywood Reporter.Miles and Jack are back!

Vertical (Deluxe Edition): The Sequel to Sideways

From the author of Sideways,the sequel to the world's most beloved wine novel. Its ten years later, and the two on the road buddies-Jack, now divorced, and Miles, dealing with new found fame as a writer-reunite and travel to Oregon's famed Pinot Noir wine country to attend the International Pinot Noir Celebration. Unable to keep it simple, Miles steals his septuagenarian mother away from her senior housing prison, which means bringing her pot-smoking caretaker as well. Not only do Miles and Jack find themselves in troubled, new relationships and almost unfathomable hilarious situations, but they confront sobering challenges of being over 40-and looking at 70. All of this set in the heart stoppingly, wine-rich beautiful landscape of Oregon's own Burgundy country.

Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail

It is ten years later and the two (now well known) on the road buddies--Jack, now divorced, and Miles dealing with new found fame as a writer of a novel now Oscar winning film--reunite and travel to Oregon's famed Pinot Noir wine country to attend the International Pinot Noir celebration. Unable to keep it simple, Miles steals his septuagenarian Mother away from her senior housing prison in California, which means bringing her pot smoking caretaker as well. Not only do Miles and Jack find themselves in troubled, new relationships and almost unfathomable hilarious situations, but they confront sobering challenges of being over 40--and looking at 70. All of this is set in the heart-stoppingly, wine-rich beautiful landscape of Oregon's own Burgundy country. This book will take you on a funny yet touching road trip through 21st century America, and have you laughing and crying. Wine lovers will appreciate it, but any adult will appreciate this touching tale of a Mother-Son reconciliation of a road trip which culminates in a very touching ending. As one wine critic put wrote, "if you like Sideways, you will love Vertical."

Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail: Wine Blogger Early Review Edition

United States

It is ten years later and the two (now well known) on the road buddies--Jack, now divorced, and Miles dealing with new found fame as a writer of a novel now Oscar winning film--reunite and travel to Oregon's famed Pinot Noir wine country to attend the International Pinot Noir celebration. Unable to keep it simple, Miles steals his septuagenarian Mother away from her senior housing prison in California, which means bringing her pot smoking caretaker as well. Not only do Miles and Jack find themselves in troubled, new relationships and almost unfathomable hilarious situations, but they confront sobering challenges of being over 40--and looking at 70. All of this is set in the heart-stoppingly, wine-rich beautiful landscape of Oregon's own Burgundy country. This book will take you on a funny yet touching road trip through 21st century America, and have you laughing and crying. Wine lovers will appreciate it, but any adult will appreciate this touching tale of a Mother-Son reconciliation of a road trip which culminates in a very touching ending. As one wine critic put wrote, "if you like Sideways, you will love Vertical."

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Vertical

Invisible Diction

Sideways and Vertical, 2 Book Collector's Edition Signed by Author

Vertical (Deluxe Edition): The Sequel to Sideways

Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail

Vertical: Passion and Pinot on the Oregon Wine Trail: Wine Blogger Early Review Edition

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