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Speed

Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel (Adrenaline)

By Willis, Clint & Hardcastle, Nate

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Adrenaline offers all the thrills and power of speed with exhilarating writing about NASCAR, speed records, third-world road trips, driving in war zones, getaways, “pick-up” competitions (drag races and games of chicken), and all the other activities that offer adventure on wheels. Speed includes passages from Road Fever by erstwhile adventurer Tim Cahill; a selection from Charles Portis’s anarchic The Dog of the South; a description of driving across Africa from Stuart Stephens’s Malaria Dreams; E. B. White’s elegiac essay on the Model T; a piece from Roads by Larry McMurtry; a selection from The Wildest Ride: A History of NASCAR; and more. 16 black-and-white photos heighten these pulse-pounding stories.

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ISBN
978-1-56025-391-4
Publisher
Thunder's Mouth Press


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Reviewed on June 1, 2002

What does one do with the theme of speed? To answer that question, the editors have brought together fiction and nonfiction from sources as varied as the top speeds of today's automobiles. Put a little Tom Wolfe here and some Jack Kerouac there, mix with a bit of Evan Green, then add Stuart Stevens and Russell Banks to taste, and you've got a fascinating book...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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