Immortal Class Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power

Name: Immortal Class Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power
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ISBN: 9780375760242

ISBN-10: 0375760245

ISBN-13: 9780375760242

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Authors: Travis Hugh Culley, Travis Culley

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Travis Hugh Culley went to Chicago to make his name in its thriving theater scene, yet found in his day job a sense of community and fulfillment—and a brotherhood of like-minded individualists—that he encountered nowhere else. In The Immortal Class, Culley takes us inside the heart and soul of an American urban icon: the bicycle messenger. In describing his own history and those of his peers, he evokes a classic American maverick, deeply woven into the fabric of society—from the pits of squalor to the highest reaches of power and privilege—yet always resolutely, exuberantly outside. Culley’s voice is at once earthy and soaringly poetic—a Gen-X Tom Joad at hyperspeed. The Immortal Class…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/13/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English

Travis Hugh Culley, a director and playwright, has worked as a bike messenger in Philadelphia and Chicago, where he currently lives.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Daybreak



Freedom in the American City



Torso: an Xer's Path to Politics



The Run of the Bull



The Exposure Principle



The Physics of Floating



Is/Chicago



Between the Cliff and the Bank



Alley Cat: of Sickness and Success



Ambush



Requiem for the Working Man



The Remains of Public Space


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