The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power - Rilegato

Culley, Travis Hugh

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ISBN 10: 0375504281 ISBN 13: 9780375504280

Casa editrice: Villard, 2001

Riassunto

A bicycle messenger offers a poetic and evocative account of the world of the bicycle messenger, a uniquely urban icon, as he describes the freedom, community, and liberation he has found in his own life and in the lives of his peers. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

Advance praise for The Immortal Class:

"Fast-paced, danger-filled, and thoroughly spellbinding...so rich, so unusual, and so aggressively written that readers will leave the book gasping for breath. This is a truly stunning book, completely original, a mixture of autobiography and philosophical treatise. Culley is a genuinely gifted writer, able to turn a seemingly ordinary bike ride into poetry in motion... We see the world through the eyes of a man hurtling through it at breakneck speed, and nothing we see, nothing we hear, is the way we expect it to be. One of the very best nonfiction books of recent years, and a treat for anyone gutsy enough to climb aboard."
--Booklist (starred review)

"Powerful and poetic."
--Library Journal (starred review)

"[An] exciting memoir...offering a rare inside view of a maligned but ubiquitous urban subculture...kinetic."
--Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

Travis Hugh Culley, a director and playwright, has worked as a bike messenger in Philadelphia and Chicago, where he currently lives.

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• Editore: Villard
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375504281
• ISBN 13: 9780375504280
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352