Road Trips. Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings
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Road Trips, Head Trips and Other Car-Crazed Writings is a delightful, eclectic look at all things automotive. Including fiction, journalism, and poetry, it offers such classic voices as Ernest Hemingway during his newspaper days, John Steinbeck and his search for America (accompanied by his French poodle, Charley), Bob Ottum's hysterical report on a trip to France with NASCAR champion Cale Yarborough (Le Mans hasn't been the same since Ol' Cale's Camaro), and the wonderfully witty S. J. Perelman, whose letters to the neighbors tell of a disastrous cross-country voyage by car to California. Whether fact or fiction, playful or contemplative, the selections in Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings comprise a riotous anthology that fully explores our love affair with the automobile. "As these essays, poems and stories attest, the automobile is more to us than just a transportation device. Steinbeck, Hemingway and Kerouac, along with thirty others write passionately of the road, documenting the special bond we have with our vehicles and celebrating the places, people and things we meet." -- Ann Arbor News
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0871137224
ISBN13:9780871137227
Release Date:July 1998
Publisher:Atlantic Monthly Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.04 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 7.4" x 9.2"
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Anthologies & Literary Collections Automotive Classic Cars Classics Criticism & Theory Essays Essays & Correspondence Fiction Food, Lodging & Transportation General History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Road Travel Transportation Travel Travel Writing Women Writers Women's Studies WritingCustomer Reviews
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Enlightening, Entertaining and Candid
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
If you are of an autombile mind, then "Road Trips..." is a great book to read while in the coffee shop, waiting for the drawbridge to come down, or just to fill time. It is a collection of short stories from various authors, making it a collage of driving cultural tidbits that inform and entertain. The hardcover edition is nostalgical, appealing--a beautiful, classical cover with natural, thick pages--that made me want to head down to Route 66 from beginning to end, and hit every diner in between. I'm glad to be a part of the American Culture, and especially the driving culuture, as peoples past could not have imagined--nor enjoyed--the thrill at travelling at a mile a minute as easily as putting on your clothes. "Road Trips..." is a journey in itself, and I dare not spoil the trip for you. Lindamood did a fantastic editing job by keeping her hands out of the mix unless necessary; she let the writer do the talking. Great reading for all minds over 15 (language). Makes a great gift for the driver in your life.
Road Trips Rocks
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This book is a well compiled anthology of porbably the best Automotive writings anywhere. Try it! Also...if you like this you should read her monthly column in Automobile Magazine.
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