Description: This title makes it sound like this is a fluff piece. It is far from it. It is articles and short stories from some of the great writers of automotive and American literature, from David E. Davis to Hunter Thompson to John Steinbeck and Papa Hemingway. I have had this book on my shelf for over a decade and never read it, until this week. I scanned through the contents, was intrigued, and spent the next few days devouring it. You will too, as soon as I finish it! From the Ann Arbor News book review: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."
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ISBN-10: 0871137224
Publication Name: Atlantic Monthly Press
Type: Paperback
Book Title: Road Trips, Head Trips, and OTHER Car-Crazed Writings
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 7.4in
Author: P. J. O'rourke
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Features: Reprint
Topic: Anthologies (Multiple Authors), Automotive / General, American / General, Essays & Travelogues
Publisher: GROVE/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication Year: 1998
Genre: Travel, Transportation, Literary Collections, Fiction
Item Weight: 16.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
