Novel Giveaway

We're giving away a copy of author Rex Pickett's Vertical! To enter, please send your name and address, with the subject line 'Vertical', to contests@wineaccess.ca by September 4, 2012 at 4 p.m. MST.

*This contest is now closed*

To win, you must reside in Canada, with a Canadian mailing address, and you must be the legal drinking age or above within your province.

Vertical ($15, Loose Gravel Press) finds four decidedly troubled human beings, plus a dog, into Miles’s rental rampvan heading for the International Pinot Noir Celebration in Oregon. Along with Miles, rolling in dough, and Jack, now divorced and so permanently pickled he can no longer get directing work in Hollywood, are Miles’s stroke-addled mother, Phyllis; her pot-smoking Filipina nurse, Joy; and his mom’s Yorkie, Snapper.

Miles’s ill-fated scheme is to snatch his mom from the Southern California assisted-living facility she hates and take her, via Oregon, to her sister’s home in Wisconsin. While Miles and Jack wind up in beds with voracious women and in bottles neither could afford until recently, the trip is a disaster from the get-go.