A busload of mismatched passengers is stranded together after a flash flood traps their driver's makeshift detour off the highway, and the forced intimacy of the night strips away each one's polite self-deception about who they really are.
Books mentioned in The Wayward Bus (2)
Everyman by Philip Roth: “The novel's epigraph is drawn from the late-fifteenth-century English morality play Everyman; per the endnotes, Steinbeck himself referred to it as "the lead" to the book.”
Captain Hornblower by C. S. Forester: “She had a trunk stored with Loraine with some books in it—Captain Hornblower, and a Life of Beethoven, and some paper books of the short stories of Saroyan, and some old evening dresses to be made over.”