The Life of the Automobile

The Life of the Automobile

by JoachimNeugroschel (Translator), IlyaEhrenburg (Author)

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 01 Jun 1999

ISBN 10: 1852426365
ISBN 13: 9781852426361

Media Reviews
This book is not a novel; it is a chronicle of our time -- Ilya Ehrenburg ?A Futurist-Expressionist masterpiece * superbly translated? Sunday Times *
Author Bio
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.