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``Featuring one of the most lurid car rides in the history of literature as well as one of the most affecting meditations on the loss of parents, William Norwich's first novel is a moving and funny story....Test drive it today.'' Jay McInerney At the advanced age of 37, Julian Orr--New York glossy magazine journalist and expert on promo parties and other necessities of 20th-century urban living--learns to drive. His object is a driver's license that will allow him to visit his parents' graves in the small Connecticut town where he underwent a puzzling but quietly tender childhood. But what begins as an innocent act of personal liberation (with the help of Hector, the driving instructor from hell), suddenly escalates crazily, terrifyingly out of control. A poignant and compelling novel. William Norwich is an editor-at-large for Vogue; he also writes a ``Style Diary'' for the New York Observer. He lives in New York. 214 pp 5 x 8
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If there is one subject with which William Norwich, gossip columnist for the New York Observer and editor at large for Vogue, is familiar, it is the wacky life of a New York gossip columnist. So it makes sense that Norwich choose that life as the launching point for his first novel. From there the book takes a sharp turn: columnist/protagonist Julian Orr decides at age 37 to learn to drive, enrolls in a driving school, clashes with his driving instructor, and then takes a wild ride in the netherworld of famous people outside of Manhattan.
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William Norwich is the editor-at-large for Vogue and a columnist for the New York Observer.
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- PublisherHeadline Book Pub Ltd
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0747255849
- ISBN 13 9780747255840
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- Number of pages224
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