Plato's garage

the long version

"In a collection of essays that are often personal, occasionally journalistic, and frequently meditative, Rob Campbell takes a look at the world from a different perspective - through the reflective lens of the automobile in our car-obsessed culture. Campbell's exploration ranges from the Los Angeles he knows, where people are frequently defined by the cars they drive, to the Bakersfield in which he grew up, where the group you went cruising with defined your station in life; from the lives of the designers whose cars define our fantasies to the role that cars play in our continual effort to define our reality."--BOOK JACKET. "Setting out from Plato's Cave in the Republic, Campbell takes to the highway and heads for the last exit - to Plato's Garage, where society parks its metaphoric cars."--BOOK JACKET.