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Author: Alan Sternberg Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
"Camaro City - named by car thieves, because the Camaro is popular there - is a Connecticut factory city that has lost its factories. The stories in this collection concern its people, most of whom take whatever work they can find. They are trash inspectors at the landfill, assistant fleet managers at the traprock quarry, owners of construction companies that go bankrupt. The local teenagers also seem to be having a run of bad luck - they can't handle cigarette lighters safely, let alone motorcycles, and they get too many of their cues about life from the aphorisms displayed on the sides of grocery trucks that rumble up and down the interstate behind the high school." ""Never go to bed angry with each other!" one such truck proclaims, but people in Camaro City often do. They also go to bed confused - especially the men, who don't understand why their lives don't seem to fit anymore. (The women are less likely to consider college sissified and are put out of work much less often.) Spirited and stubborn, these people refuse to see themselves as relics of the factory economy. Their more and less fortunate neighbors are also represented here - a girl from the inner city who must choose how to grow up; a young woman of relative privilege who discovers the joy and difficulty of her mother's work. Straightforward, respectful, and beautifully crafted, Sternberg's stories offer a clear window on the life of a small American city late in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Alan Sternberg Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
"Camaro City - named by car thieves, because the Camaro is popular there - is a Connecticut factory city that has lost its factories. The stories in this collection concern its people, most of whom take whatever work they can find. They are trash inspectors at the landfill, assistant fleet managers at the traprock quarry, owners of construction companies that go bankrupt. The local teenagers also seem to be having a run of bad luck - they can't handle cigarette lighters safely, let alone motorcycles, and they get too many of their cues about life from the aphorisms displayed on the sides of grocery trucks that rumble up and down the interstate behind the high school." ""Never go to bed angry with each other!" one such truck proclaims, but people in Camaro City often do. They also go to bed confused - especially the men, who don't understand why their lives don't seem to fit anymore. (The women are less likely to consider college sissified and are put out of work much less often.) Spirited and stubborn, these people refuse to see themselves as relics of the factory economy. Their more and less fortunate neighbors are also represented here - a girl from the inner city who must choose how to grow up; a young woman of relative privilege who discovers the joy and difficulty of her mother's work. Straightforward, respectful, and beautifully crafted, Sternberg's stories offer a clear window on the life of a small American city late in the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Mike Mueller Publisher: Motorbooks ISBN: 1610597923 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
This is the high-performance tale of what was undoubtedly the fastest, loosest era in automotive history. Through the 1960s and into the 1970s, America’s carmakers fought an unbridled war for street supremacy. The warriors ranged from light and agile Z/28 Camaros and Boss 302 Mustangs to big-block brutes like the 440 Road Runner and Stage I 455 Buick GS. A few of these boulevard brawlers were closing on 500 horsepower before the insurance lobby, Ralph Nader, OPEC, and various governmental agencies conspired to stop the madness. Muscle cars all but disappeared by 1974, with only a few anemic models soldiering through the 1980s. But by the 1990s, thanks to vastly improved engine technology, muscle cars were back with a vengeance. Motor City Muscle traces the full history right up to today’s new Mustang, Camaro, and Challenger.
Author: Jason Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9781610590389 Category : Camaro automobile Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
Improve the power, performance and good looks of your Camaro in every way! Detailed chapters cover rebuilding the engine; induction system and cylinder heads; supercharging, turbocharging and nitrous oxide injection; camshaft and valvetrain; exhaust system; electronics and ignition; transmission and driveline; handling and suspension. Covers all F-body Camaros up to 1998.
Author: Gayle Peters Publisher: Bitingduck Press LLC ISBN: 1886420025 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 389
Book Description
So, what if you're Jonathan Prophet, a widower, a father (three beautiful girls, including 8-year-old twins), and a deputy sheriff in Vidalia County, Georgia, and it's been a hot summer Sunday on roadblock duty at the Flint River Bridge looking for escaped cons from state correctional, and this mother of all thunderstorms blows up to break the drought, and you're left alone when your partner takes a Code Seven to go for burgers, and this UFO barrels in through the downpour twenty feet over your head and smashes into the red Georgia clay and you think that taking a close look might change your life? WHAT IF YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT? And what if it turns out you're NOT just an ordinary guy trying to make it, but instead you have this incredible talent that makes you unbelievably valuable to certain people, and you land yourself in this really bad situation, and all your courage and training and luck aren't enough to prevent the worst from happening? WHAT IF SOMEBODY TAKES YOUR DAUGHTERS? And what if you're in the middle of somebody else's war, trying to get your girls back, and you wind up in Camp David trying to convince the President of the United States that his worst nightmares have come true? And what if you bring this gorgeous female person with you, and that person does something awful, in spite of the Secret Service and all the Marines in the world? And what if, before it's over, you put everything you value in deadly perilOCoyour life, your country, even the future of the human race itselfOCojust to get your girls back? THEN WHAT, JONATHAN PROPHET? THEN WHAT? For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit bosonbooks.com."
Author: John Gunnell Publisher: Krause Publications ISBN: 9780873494953 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Relive the 35-year history of the Chevy Camaro, the poor man's Corvette, with this book's 300 vivid color photos, facts, and up-to-date collector-market values.
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