Autogeddon by Heathcote Williams

Autogeddon by Heathcote Williams

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A campaigning narrative poem, partly in prose, on the devastating effect of the motor car on our lives. It is a revelation of the extent to which the human psyche has become possessed by a machine until we can no longer control its effects.

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Autogeddon by Heathcote Williams

A campaigning narrative poem with an anthology of prose writings, this is about the devastating effect of the motor car on our lives. More than 17 million people have been killed on the roads in the century since the first motor car appeared and an incalculable number seriously hurt, or have died later from the effects of road accidents. This is but one fact among many that build up to the evidence of man's heedless inhumanity to his fellow traveller. But this book is much more than a catalogue of death and destruction - of maimed children, of noxious pollution in the air, and through the petro-chemical industry, in rivers and the soil. It is a revelation of the extent to which the human psyche has become possessed by a machine until we can no longer control the effects of it. The author also wrote "Whale Nation".
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ISBN 13 9780224026444
ISBN 10 0224026445
Title Autogeddon
Author Heathcote Williams
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Other printed item
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1991-08-29
Number of pages 148
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