Imprint: Yellow Jersey
Published: 06/06/2019
ISBN: 9781787290297
Length: 368 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 255g
RRP: £9.99
Tim Moore - indefatigable travelling everyman – switches two wheels for four as he journeys across Trumpland in an original Model T Ford.
‘Alarmingly full of incident, very funny – even mildly transformative’ Daily Mail
Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow, Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an original Model T Ford. Armed only with a fan belt made of cotton, wooden wheels and a trunkload of ‘wise-ass Limey liberal gumption’, his route takes him exclusively through Donald-voting counties, meeting the everyday folks who voted red along the way.
He meets a people defined by extraordinary generosity, willing to shift heaven and earth to keep him on the road. And yet, this is clearly a nation in conflict with itself: citizens ‘tooling up’ in reaction to ever-increasing security fears; a healthcare system creaking to support sugar-loaded soda lovers; a disintegrating rust belt all but forgotten by the warring media and political classes.
With his trademark blend of slapstick humour, affable insight and butt-clenching peril, Tim Moore invites us on an unforgettable road trip through America. Buckle up!
Imprint: Yellow Jersey
Published: 06/06/2019
ISBN: 9781787290297
Length: 368 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
Weight: 255g
RRP: £9.99
An easy and enjoyable read, it’s as much about the roadtrip in a vintage car as it is observations on the current political climate in America
Moore… [is] very good at soaking up the strangeness of America and relating it to readers with an easy-going observational humour that only threatens to desert him when he contemplates the excesses of the current administration
Hilarious and scary often in equal measure
This is The Wizard of Oz in reverse – an attempt to uncover the source of what went wrong in America… What lingers is the stories of communities brimming with people who worked like dogs to learn a trade in a country they believed would reward them
Alarmingly full of incident, very funny – even mildly transformative