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Destination Nowhere (Paperback)
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Destination Nowhere (Paperback)
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Loot Price R501
Discovery Miles 5 010
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Very few people have not interrupted a motorway journey to use the
amenities of a service station. The author of this work, however,
is not just passing through. His mission is to create a
contemporary record in diary form of everyday life at a motorway
service station. The result is a highly amusing yet informative
account of this 'fantasy world'. With 'voyeuristic curiosity', the
author faithfully describes all he hears and sees: snappy mobile
phone conversations, disorderly queues for coffee, intense business
meetings and sexual encounters in the gents'. We are entertained by
his astute observations of human eccentricities: the disorientation
of visitors faced by the 'visual overload' of this almost surreal
environment; their confusion at the drinks counter; their reaction
to the high prices. The work has, at the same time, an almost
journalistic appeal to it. The author includes snippets of traffic
news, apt quotations from novels, factual information from
government reports and interviews with staff, local people and
visitors to the service station. We realise that the motorway
service station is not simply a place to eat and drink; it is a
social arena, a community apart that on our next visit we will
regard with educated eyes.
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