Against Death and Time: One Fatal Season in Racing's Glory Years - Softcover

Yates, Brock

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560257709 ISBN 13: 9781560257707

Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005

Synopsis

An account of the 1955 car-racing season, noted as one of the sport's most violent years, profiles the dispossessed young men who competed against themselves and each other from the perspective of a fictional narrator, in a volume that draws on the author's interviews with surviving racers, mechanics, and historians. Reprint.

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Review:

"Driving in a race is like nothing else in the world, and now at last the question 'What is it like out there?' is answered by one of the best writers around."

Synopsis:

"Against Death and Time" chronicles one fatal season in the post-war glory years of race car driving. It is the story of the dispossessed young men who raced for "the sheer unvarnished hell of it." Yates has been writing for "Car and Driver" for more than thirty years and is one of the best-known people in the racing world. He raced his own car for a season in a Plimpton-like adventure recorded in one of his six books, "Sunday Driver". He has published widely, from "Playboy" to the "Wall Street Journal", and has appeared on every major television network as a racing and automotive industry commentator. Brock integrates unexpected and fascinating detail into this character-driven story of men compelled to compete against themselves, time, and death. His strategy of a fictional narrator observing, interrogating, and reporting on Brock's real-life protagonists imparts the immediacy of fiction to this minutely accurate account. The book is based on Yates's incomparable experience and interviews with dozens of surviving racers, widows, car owners, mechanics, and historians.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1560257709
• ISBN 13: 9781560257707
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352