Road Trips, Head Trips, and Other Car-Crazed Writings

Book Overview

This book 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), and the wonderfully witty S.J. Perelman, whose letters to the neighbors tell of a disastrous cross-country voyage by car to California.The good-ol'-boy world of stock-car racing travels to deepest France with hysterical consequences in Bob Ottum's Heck, Mes Amis, It's Only Ol' Cale; Hunter S. Thompson and his three-hundred-pound Samoan attorney terrorize tourists on the Strip in Las Vegas from their red Cadillac convertible; and P.J. O'Rourke tours Mexico in a ridiculously monstrous metallic-silver Lincoln Continental mushbucket. Also included are works by Jim Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Dave Barry, and David Halberstam.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871136546
• ISBN13: 9780871136541
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Enlightening, Entertaining and Candid

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

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.