![]() ![]() "Riding on a motorcycle can make you feel joyous, powerful, peaceful, frightened, vulnerable, and back out to happy again," Pierson writes, "perhaps in the same ten miles. ![]() It is a book for people who don't know what the big deal is about riding, or why the Guggenheim Museum in New York, in a swirl of controversy, would exhibit motorcycles as works of modern art. This is the motorcycle memoir for those who are sick of memoirs-or motorcycles. She can write equally well about the visceral pleasures of riding and about the pains of heartbreak or her own displeasure with her fears. From motorcycles I learned practically everything else." Pierson, an intellectual New Yorker, is open to her own contradictions-she is bold and fearful, a motorcycle-crazed poet with a Ph.D., and these seeming incompatibilities are what make this book so good. Melissa Holbrook Pierson’s The Perfect Vehicle may have a similarly enlivening effect on initiates to the sport, because the book presents such an engaging and intelligent look at the. King's ballroom dancing school I learned a proper curtsy and, believe it or not, what to do if presented with nine eating utensils at the same place setting. ![]() ISBN:1-86207-119-5 This is a first time foray in to the world of Travel Writing for the forty-something American proof reader and former Art History graduate Melissa Holbrook Pierson. ![]() Published by Granta Publications, 2/3 Hanover Yard, London. "From my mother I learned to write prompt thank-you notes for a variety of occasions," Melissa Holbrook Pierson writes. The Perfect Vehicle by Melissa Holbrook Pierson. ![]()
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