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Life is a Highway

A Century of Great Automotive Writing

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Editor:

Melinda Keefe

Format: Hardcover, 288 Pages

Item: 149686

ISBN: 9780760338582

Publisher: Motorbooks

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Illustrations: 63 b/w photos

Size: 6.25 x 9.25

Weight: 1.25 lb.

Edition: First

Published: October 10th 2010

DC: AP

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Life Is a Highway, a collection of the best automotive writing to date, captures the joys of the automobile, the historical circumstances of its creation, and the major events, people, and cars involved. This book includes the most significant writings and musings about the automobile ever recorded, featuring works from some of the most well-known authors and publications of the automobile’s first 100-plus years. Contributors include Stephen King, Jack Kerouac, Peter Egan, Jeremy Clarkson, Jay Leno, P. J. O'Rourke, Rowan Atkinson, and L. J. K. Setright.

Darwin Holmstrom, senior acquisitions editor for MBI Publishing, has written or co-written over a dozen books on cars and motorcycles, including BMW Motorcycles, GTO: Pontiac’s Great One, The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. Archive Collection, Camaro: Forty Years, Muscle: America’s Legendary Performance Cars, and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Motorcycles.

Melinda Keefe is an MBI Publishing editor who has contributed to various Motorbooks titles, covering subjects from hot rodding to muscle cars to motorsports. Her efforts with Motorbooks have inspired an interest in cars and car people that was unexpected but has been surprisingly satisfying. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

"Life is a Highway gives snapshots of this automotive evolution through a collection of articles and book excerpts from the past hundred years. The topics are as varied as the industry of car production, the thrills and perils of racing, the ups and downs of ownership, and that most sacred of topics, the road trip. Editors Darwin Holmstrom and Melinda Keefe have gathered a terrific variety of sources. Add this book to your holiday wish list and spend a few hours jumping around through time." - Grassroots Motorsports "Life is a Highway is a compilation of great automotive writing." - Kansas City Star

"You don’t have to love cars, or to know much about them, to want to own this book. Great automotive writing is as much about journeys, destinations, personalities and atmosphere as it is about machines, and “Life Is a Highway” delivers abundantly on all of the above. - New York Times

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