| Fast Company: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Motorcycles in Italy Contributor(s): Gross, David M. (Author), Gardner, Grover (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786158883 ISBN-13: 9780786158881 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: In sensuous, hilarious, and wildly entertaining prose, David M. Gross pens a wry yet ecstatic love letter to the uproarious city of Bologna and its style-obsessed denizens, and to the motorcycle that gave him the freedom to live life at its very fastest. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Business - Business & Economics | Industries - Manufacturing - Transportation | Motorcycles - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.44" W x 6.37" (0.51 lbs) |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1990's - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: David Gross is working as a corporate lawyer in New York when a friend calls to invite him to move to Bologna to help turn around a legendary Italian motorcycle company, known for its dominance on the track and its inability to turn a profit. Off he heads to the fabled home of marbled meats, radical leftist politics, and bespoke shoes, diving into his new life as the "corporate image consultant" to gearheads while learning to navigate the giddy mores of Bolognese society. There he stokes the business with sexy ad campaigns starring factory workers wearing Versace. Above all, he falls in love with motorcycles, seduced by speed, and realizes that becoming a better rider means tapping into dormant parts of his self that, as it turns out, were just waiting to be unleashed. And when he picks up a handsome, young--and closeted--skinhead, things really get interesting. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gross, David M.: - David Gross attended Brown University and Harvard Law School. He has written on finance for the New York Times, Time, and Newsday, among other publications. He lives in Bologna, Italy. Fast Company is his first book. Gardner, Grover: -Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the "Best Voices of the Century" and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards. |