{"id":752376,"date":"2012-04-17T19:48:18","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T19:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=752376"},"modified":"2024-01-04T22:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T22:03:36","slug":"book-review-life-is-a-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/book-review-life-is-a-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"[Book Review] Life Is a Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PR201204-p2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/PR201204-p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/a>Life Is a Highway<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Edited by Darwin Holstrom and Melinda Keefe<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A star-studded group of writers have contributed work to this compendium of stories about the many aspects of the automobile and the human activities in which it plays an integral role. Some of these writers are accomplished automotive journalists with familiar names like Ken Purdy, L.K.J. Setright, Tom McCahill, David E. Davis, Brock Yates or Ted West, while other tales come from best-selling authors such as Jack Kerouac, Stephen King or Hunter S. Thompson, and yet others arise from such unlikely sources as J. Edgar Hoover and Rowan Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the best is from Chris McCall, a driver\u2019s license-less New Yorker who tells of learning to drive for the first time in a GT350 Mustang at California\u2019s Willow Springs Raceway, with instruction from the SCCA\u2019s John Timanus. The other tales range from short to long, humorous to instructive, biographical to fantastic, and most readers will surely find something that suits their fancy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is, however, primarily a book of text with only the occasional photograph and a handful of illustrations by Hector Cadematori.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Available for US$25 (\u00a319) at enthusiast bookstores or directly from publisher Motorbooks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motorbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.motorbooks.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Is a Highway Edited by Darwin Holstrom and Melinda Keefe A star-studded group of writers have contributed work to this compendium of stories about the many aspects of the automobile and the human activities in which it plays an integral role. Some of these writers are accomplished automotive journalists with familiar names like Ken Purdy, L.K.J. 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