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Last Bus to Coffeeville

J P Henderson

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English
No Exit Press
01 May 2015
Nancy Skidmore has Alzheimer's and her oldest friend Eugene Chaney IIIonce more a purpose in life

to end hers.

When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she isunexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a nursing home and he has to call upon his tworemaining friends to help break her out: one his godson, a disgraced weatherman in the throes of amidlife crisis, and the other an ex-army marksman officially dead for forty years.

On a tour bus once stolen from Paul McCartney, and joined by a young orphan boy searching for lostfamily, the band of misfits career towards Mississippi through a landscape of war, euthanasia,communism, religion and racism, and along the way discover the true meaning of love, family and most important of all

friendship. Charming, uplifting and profoundly moving, Last Bus toCoffeeville is a chronicle of lives that have jumped the tracks; a tale of endings and newbeginnings; a funny story about sad things.

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Imprint:   No Exit Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   309g
ISBN:   9781843442653
ISBN 10:   1843442655
Pages:   448
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

J Paul Henderson was born and grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire, gained a Master's degree in American Studies and travelled to Afghanistan. He worked in a foundry, as a bus conductor, trained as an accountant and then, when the opportunity to return to academia arose, left for Mississippi, returning four years later with a doctorate in 20thC US History and more knowledge of Darlington Hoopes than was arguably necessary. (Hoopes was a Pennsylvanian socialist and the last presidential candidate of the American Socialist Party).

Reviews for Last Bus to Coffeeville

There is heartbreak . . . black humour . . . and some of the charm of The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry. Daily Mail


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