Sideways, Rex Pickett
Sideways, Rex Pickett
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Sideways
The Ultimate Road Trip

Author: Rex Pickett

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2005

Categories: Fiction, Media Tie-in

Synopsis

The book that inspired the film of the same name, staring Paul Giamatti, Sideways is a beautifully crafted buddy novel full of “witty dialogue, and bags of well-crafted entertainment” (Yorkshire Times). Sideways is the story of two friends—Miles and Jack—going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: Pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez Valley wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles—who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career, and has lost his passion for living—the trip is a weeklong opportunity to evaluate his past, his future, and himself.A raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships.

About Rex Pickett

Rex Pickett is the critically acclaimed author of the novel Sideways, which was adapted into the iconic film of the same title. Sideways was nominated for five Academy Awards, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay, among 350 other plaudits. Pickett is the author of three Sideways sequels—the IPPY Gold Medal–winning Sideways Oregon (previously published as Vertical), Sideways Chile, and now Sideways New Zealand. He is also the author of The Archivist. Pickett is currently working on a post–Sideways New Zealand trilogy. A Southern California native, the Rex Pickett Papers are currently enshrined at Geisel Library on the campus of his alma mater, the University of California San Diego.

About Scott Brick

Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. He attended UCLA and spent ten years in a traveling Shakespeare company. Passionate about the spoken word, he has narrated a wide variety of audiobooks. winning won more than fifty AudioFile Earphones Awards and several of the prestigious Audie Awards. He was named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine and the Voice of Choice for 2016 by Booklist magazine.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy on January 08, 2023

Someone called Rex Pickett pretentious the other day. He was so surprised, he almost choked on his glass of 1997 Ciacci Pianrosso.......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on October 08, 2022

Sideways is a fun romp through the antics of two grown men who never reached maturity. My twenty-something self experienced the extreme fun of making numerous all night turn-a-round trips to Las Vegas with my best friend. We jumped into his junker Ford Pinto and headed out for the free booze and the......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on July 29, 2016

4.5 stars. I love the movie SIDEWAYS. Love it. And I owe this book a debt because it spawned the movie. Rex Pickett is an extremely perceptive writer. Most of what made the movie so wonderful is in this book. And though--don't hate me--I still prefer the movie to the novel, I feel a great deal of af......more

Goodreads review by Snotchocheez on March 15, 2011

When "Sideways" came out a few years ago, I remembered promising myself to read the book; given that I thought the movie was generally pretty interesting, and that it (rather, Alexander Payne) won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, I figured it would be worth taking a look at the source material.......more

Goodreads review by Asghar on September 10, 2018

Comradeship and the Road. Hilarious. Men. Women. Read this. End of. This was a brutal hilarity. It's a bit saddening because it's the truth. And that is sad, the whole concept and the way men and women deal with each other, because all of it is limned by the truth, that is both brutal and hilarious and......more

Quotes

“Skillful work about a friendship between two ultimately likable guys.” Kirkus Reviews

“Pickett takes his readers on a jolly ride.” Publishers Weekly

“A buddy novel in the cinematic vein of Swingers…Pickett plays the sex-and-the-single-man angle for all it’s worth here…like Dharma Bums updated with metrosexual panache.” Booklist

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