The Life of the Automobile - Softcover

Ehrenburg, Ilya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916354075 ISBN 13: 9780916354077

Publisher: Urizen Books Inc.,N.Y., 1990

Synopsis

First published seventy years ago, The Life of the Automobile is the novel of the consumer dream. Flamboyant characters like Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan and Andr? Citro?n move in and out of its pages and so, too, do the unhappy victims of the first crash and the first strikes in the car plants. Written at a time when confidence in science was supreme, The Life of the Automobile uncannily predicts the rise and fall of our romance with the car: it is as relevant now as when it was first published.

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Review:

This book is not a novel; it is a chronicle of our time (Ilya Ehrenburg ?A Futurist-Expressionist masterpiece superbly translated? Sunday Times)

About the Author:

Born in 1891, Ilya Ehrenberg died in Russia in 1967. A prolific journalist and writer, he was the author of A Street in Moscow and The Thaw.

About this edition

• Publisher: Urizen Books Inc.,N.Y.
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0916354075
• ISBN 13: 9780916354077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162