The Sideways Wine Country Collection

The book that inspired the film of the same name, starring Paul Giamatti. 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 LA to the Santa Ynez Valley wine country. For Jack, the 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 an opportunity to evaluate his past, his future, and himself. The follow-up novel to the blockbuster Sideways. It's seven years later. Miles has written a novel that has been made into a successful movie. Jack, contrarily, is divorced, has a kid, and is on the skids. Phyllis, Miles' mom, has suffered a stroke that's left her wheelchair-bound and wasting away in assisted living. She desperately wants to live with her sister in Wisconsin. When Miles gets invited to be master of ceremonies at the International Pinot Festival in Oregon, he hatches a road trip. With Jack as his copilot, he leases a handicapped-equipped van, hires a pot-smoking Filipina caretaker, and, with his mother's rascally Yorkie in tow, they take off for Wisconsin via Oregon's fabled Willamette Valley. The third installment in the Sideways series. Sideways: Chile follows the further adventures of Miles Raymond. It’s now a few years later and Miles is a successful author with a blockbuster movie adaptation under his belt, but he’s still searching for something, and depression has him, once again, in its taloned grip. When he is offered a chance to travel to the country of Chile and visit their wine regions for a magazine assignment, Miles—his world turned upside down—happily agrees. A somewhat rudderless Miles finds Chile, their people, and their spectacular and diverse wine regions, to be just the first step in a life-transforming journey.