Driving Like Crazy celebrates cars and author P. J. O'Rourke's love
for them, while chronicling the golden age of the automobile in
America. O'Rourke takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world's most
scenic and bumpiest roads in trouble-laden cross-country treks,
from a 1978 Florida-to-California escapade in a 1956 special
four-door Buick sedan to a 1983 thousand-mile effort across Mexico
in the Baja 1000 to a trek through Kyrgyzstan in 2006 on the back
of a Soviet army surplus six-wheel-drive truck. For longtime fans
of the celebrated humorist, the collection features a host of
O'Rourke's classic pieces on driving, including "How to Drive Fast
on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your
Drink," about the potential misdeeds one might perform in the front
(and back) seat of an automobile; "The Rolling Organ Donors
Motorcycle Club," which chronicles a seven-hundred-mile weekend
trip through Michigan and Indiana that O'Rourke took on a Harley
Davidson alongside Car & Driver publisher David E. Davis, Jr.;
his brilliant and funny piece from Rolling Stone on NASCAR and its
peculiar culture, recorded during an alcohol-fueled weekend in
Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1977; and an hilarious account of a
trek from Islamabad to Calcutta in Land Rover's new Discovery Trek.
General
| Imprint: |
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
April 2010 |
| First published: |
May 2010 |
| Authors: |
P.J O'Rourke
|
| Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
267 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8021-4479-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Sport & Leisure >
Humour >
General
Promotions
|
| LSN: |
0-8021-4479-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780802144799 |
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