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The novel tells the story of an old man who kidnaps his granddaughter 14 years old, hoping to reconnect with their adult children away (at least “Plan F”, I hope) before losing his memory to a match Alzheimer’s disease. Producer Barry Josephson (Life As We Know It) is bringing novel Last Chance James King Bill Warrington to the big screen. From Variety, Alexander Young will act as executive producer on the project under Josephson “Josephson Entertainment” nickname.
For an official synopsis of the novel by King, hit the jump.
This is the official synopsis [of Penguin Publishing Group]:
It looks with equal empathy, two of the most difficult transitions of life – from childhood to adulthood and from adulthood to old age, sickness and death.Poignant and often funny biting, Last Chance Bill Warrington is both a coming-of age and coming-of-age story of age.
As the novel begins, take seventy-nine years old, Bill Warrington really is slipping. His beloved wife Clara died long ago, and their three children – Mike, Nick, and Marcy – are essentially removed both him and others.The border between the past and the present is gone. You can no longer remember where she put things or that he is talking about when you call one of his sons to suggest a family meeting.
And when Bill offers to teach her granddaughter to drive, against the vehement opposition of Marcy, a seed that is planted will be completed on a wild ride.But when Bill Marcy visits upon request and brings her teenage daughter, April, a connection between grandfather and granddaughter begins to take shape.
The life of your brother Mike has also come down, although he has done everything possible to pull the family escape to the low gravity, not talk to any of them. As expected, the relationship with her mother April is unraveling quickly and soon reached the breaking point when she and her grandfather went out to the road, headed for the farthest west point on the map – San Francisco.Each of the children Bill Warrington is still recovering from having you as a parent – consumption, job instability and violent temper. As for the current confusion of their love lives, Nick Marcy question: “What is wrong with us?” Answers simply: “We Warringtons” (p. 211). The novel is a multilayered exploration of what breaks to families and what holds them together.
In the character of Bill Warren, the novel shows readers not only what insanity looks from the outside, but how it feels to the person suffering. King James takes us inside the mind of a man who is slowly slipping away from his family and the reality and allows us to see the world through their eyes. A compelling story of family dysfunction, Last Chance Bill Warrington is also well represented, often painful, aging and disorienting slide into Alzheimer’s disease. It is an achievement of extraordinary imaginative empathy