That Old Cape Magic is a 2009 novel by American author Richard Russo.
The story revolves around a past-middle-age former Hollywood screenwriter, Jack Griffin, who is presently teaching creative writing at a New England college. He loses both parents within a year of each other, and he travels considerable distance to attend two weddings during the same time. As he travels, and as he interacts both with his family and his in-laws, he ponders marital and family relationships. He is also mulling whether to remain in New England or return to the uncertainty of Hollywood.
Kyle Smith, a film critic for the New York Post, quotes a scene from the book:
Mr. Smith says that scene "is, like so many in Richard Russo's writing, both cheerfully impertinent and stingingly true." [1]
Erin Adair-Hodges of Weekly Alibi writes:
That Old Cape Magic is a 2009 novel by American author Richard Russo.
The story revolves around a past-middle-age former Hollywood screenwriter, Jack Griffin, who is presently teaching creative writing at a New England college. He loses both parents within a year of each other, and he travels considerable distance to attend two weddings during the same time. As he travels, and as he interacts both with his family and his in-laws, he ponders marital and family relationships. He is also mulling whether to remain in New England or return to the uncertainty of Hollywood.
Kyle Smith, a film critic for the New York Post, quotes a scene from the book:
Mr. Smith says that scene "is, like so many in Richard Russo's writing, both cheerfully impertinent and stingingly true." [1]
Erin Adair-Hodges of Weekly Alibi writes: