Reviews for Life of the Automobile

The average rating for Life of the Automobile based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-07 00:00:00 Robert Gallagher Who knew the sullen journalist so disparaged by Vollmann (for supposedly saying "In wartime every objective reporter should be shot") could write such a wild and Futurist-inspired novel that anticipates the Unabomber's critique of cars, the Situationists' critique of work, and Ballard's Crash--and all the way back in 1929 at that! A huge weird romp with something of the stylistic air of The USA Trilogy to it, at least as it relates to major historical figures moving in small and human ways.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-07-28 00:00:00 Jeremy Wittig One of my fave strange Soviet-era tomes.