Last Bus to Coffeeville
Nancy Skidmore has Alzheimer's and her oldest friend Eugene Chaney III once more a purpose in life - to end hers.
When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she is unexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a nursing home and he calls upon his two remaining friends to help break her out: one a disgraced weatherman in the throes of a midlife crisis and the other officially dead for forty years. On a tour bus stolen from Paul McCartney, Nancy and Gene are joined by a colourful cast of characters as they career 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 to Coffeeville is a chronicle of lives that have jumped the tracks; a tale of endings and new beginnings; a funny story about sad things.
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).
Author: J P Henderson
Format: Hardback, 384 pages, 153mm x 234mm
Published: 2014, Bedford Square Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Nancy Skidmore has Alzheimer's and her oldest friend Eugene Chaney III once more a purpose in life - to end hers.
When the moment for Gene to take Nancy to her desired death in Coffeeville arrives, she is unexpectedly admitted to the secure unit of a nursing home and he calls upon his two remaining friends to help break her out: one a disgraced weatherman in the throes of a midlife crisis and the other officially dead for forty years. On a tour bus stolen from Paul McCartney, Nancy and Gene are joined by a colourful cast of characters as they career 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 to Coffeeville is a chronicle of lives that have jumped the tracks; a tale of endings and new beginnings; a funny story about sad things.
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).