Coast to Coast

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Condition: Very Good

Marion and Barnaby Pierce are an American couple who are about to sell the New England house in which they have raised what seems to be a happy family. They are leaving on a trip across America in a vintage jaguar which Barnaby intends to give his son who is getting married in Los Angeles. Their long drive from coast to coast is planned to include a number of stops: the first to deposit their dog with Marion's pious bitter sister in upstate New York. At every stop there are memories and surprises as Barnaby and Marion live and re-live their secret dramas and in the allusive edgy dialogues of a long-married couple reveal more about themselves than they care to confess. In Minneapolis they find that their daughter Stacey is pregnant by one man and living with another; in Chicago Barnaby's old writing partner now a millionaire businessman is unwisely lured into an old vaudeville routine; in Seattle a meeting with a newspaper editor who once loved Marion re-opens old wounds; and in Los Angeles their other daughter Zara who now calls herself Zenobia turns out to be a shockingly unsociable member of her brother's wedding.