Research Catalog

Title

Plato's garage / Rob Campbell.

Author

Campbell, Rob.

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Holdings

Details

Description

vii, 264 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "In a collection of essays that are often personal, occasionally journalistic, and frequently meditative, Rob Campbell takes a look at the world from a different perspective - through the reflective lens of the automobile in our car-obsessed culture.
• Campbell's exploration ranges from the Los Angeles he knows, where people are frequently defined by the cars they drive, to the Bakersfield in which he grew up, where the group you went cruising with defined your station in life; from the lives of the designers whose cars define our fantasies to the role that cars play in our continual effort to define our reality."--BOOK JACKET.
• "Setting out from Plato's Cave in the Republic, Campbell takes to the highway and heads for the last exit - to Plato's Garage, where society parks its metaphoric cars."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Campbell, Rob
• Automobiles

Note

• Essays.

Contents

Sun Fun Stay Play: A Brief History of Hometown Cruising -- Love Child -- How to Make Brown -- How I Didn't Learn to Drive -- The Ragged Edge -- Paris When It Drizzles -- Gray Area Guru -- A Boy and His Cadillacs -- The Ghost Taxis of Kyoto -- Breakdown #1: Radio Play Cut -- Delta 88-A: Janet and the Land Yacht -- Breakdown #2: Extended 12" Remix -- Don't It Make My Brown Car Blue -- Reconnaissance '68 -- Mystery Quilt -- Of Bottles, Whales, and Bread -- The Kids Are Still All Right -- Sentiment and Sentimentality -- Delta 88-B: The New Fixation -- The Six-Million-Dollar Car -- Dr. Driving -- Postscript: The Ultimate Vehicle.

ISBN

0312205694

OCLC

ocm43206991

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries