Farewell To Model T/from Sea T From Sea to Shining Sea
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.05.2003
Verlag
Little BookroomSeitenzahl
42
Maße (L/B/H)
18.5/13.7/1 cm
Gewicht
145 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-892145-21-5
The first essay of E. B. White's to become famous, "Farewell to Model T" originally appeared in 1936 in The New Yorker as "Farewell My Lovely." It is rich in comic descriptions of the eccentricities of the car, the demands it put on its devoted owners, and the hardware and decorative accessories-from 98-cent anti-rattlers to the "de-luxe flower vase of the cut-glass anti-splash type"-that kept them pouring over the Sears Roebuck catalog. If there was an owner's manual for the flivver, it didn't begin to divulge what the owner needed to know. That's where theory, speculation, superstition, and metaphysics came in: "I remember once spitting into a timer," White recalls, "not in anger, but in a spirit of research."
It is published for the first time with "Sea to Shining Sea," in which White conjures the America that he had discovered as a 22-year old during a cross country trip in his Model T. (The year was 1922, the same the year that Fitzgerald and Hemingway went to Paris to find themselves.) In it he would write: "My own vision of the land-my own discovery of it-was shaped, more than by any other instrument, by a Model T Ford...a slow-motion roadster of miraculous design-strong, tremulous, and tireless, from sea to shining sea."
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