The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road: Tales of Life on the Move (Mammoth Books)

by Maxim Jakubowski (Editor), M. Christian (Editor)

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A symbol of transition, adventure and self-discovery, the lure of the open road is freedom, and travel more exciting than arrival. This collection features journeys along trails carved through dense jungle, or six-lane superhighways, and summer vacation trips gone wildly wrong.

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Maxim Jakubowski is a writer with over eighty anthologies to his credit, an editor, and a consultant for the International Mystery Film Festival. Following a distinguished career in publishing, he opened the world-famous Murder One Bookshop in London in 1988. He is a winner of the Anthony and Karel awards, a frequent TV and radio broadcaster, past show more crime columnist for the Guardian newspaper, and Literary Director of London's Crime Scene Festival. He is the Vice Chair of the Crime Writers' Association. show less
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M. Christian is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling book of erotic stories, Dirty Words. He is coeditor with Simon Sheppard of Rough Stuff: Tales of Gay Men, Sex, and Power, and editor of Guilty Pleasures: True Stories of Erotic Indulgences, Midsummer Night's Dreams: One Story, Many Tales, and Eros Ex Machina: Eroticizing the show more Mechanical. His short fiction has appeared in more than 100 anthologies and periodicals. He lives in San Francisco. show less

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Ballard, J. G. (Contributor)
Kerouac, Jack (Contributor)
Steinbeck, John (Contributor)
Thompson, Hunter S. (Contributor)

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Remote Viewing (by Mat Coward) (by Mat Coward); Migrant People (by John Steinbeck) (by John Steinbeck); Diversion (by Elizabeth Counihan) (by Elizabeth Counihan); Just Drive, She Said (by Richard Paul Russo) (by Richard Paul Russo); The Road to Cedar Rapids (by Greg Beatty) (by Greg Beatty); Kicks on Route 66 (by Sylvia Rose) (by Sylvia Rose) (show all 33); 24 Hours From Tulsa (by Martin Edwards) (by Martin Edwards); Summer Cannibals (by Maxim Jakubowski) (by Maxim Jakubowski); Tina and Lucile (by O.Z. Evangeline) (by O.Z. Evangeline); The Flying Lady Diner (by Debra Gray De Noux & O'Neil De Noux) (by Debra Gray De Noux & O'Neil De Noux); The Road Calls Me Dear (by Cory Doctorow) (by Cory Doctorow); On the Road (by Jack Kerouac) (by Jack Kerouac); Those Vanished I Recognize (by Tom Piccirilli) (by Tom Piccirilli); The Volcano Dances (by J.G. Ballard) (by J.G. Ballard); Weasal and the Fish (by Peter Turnbull) (by Peter Turnbull); Horizons (by Colleen Anderson) (by Colleen Anderson); Journey's End (by Carol Anne Davis) (by Carol Anne Davis); Orphans (by M. Christian) (by M. Christian); Ice Bridge (by Edo van Belkom) (by Edo van Belkom); Salvation (by Stephen Dedman) (by Stephen Dedman); The Rum Diaries (by Hunter S. Thompson) (by Hunter S. Thompson); A Wet One (by Jack Ewing) (by Jack Ewing); The Two-ton Turtle of Tattler's Terrace (by Michael Giorgio) (by Michael Giorgio); Mojave Nocturne (by Thomas S. Roche) (by Thomas S. Roche); The Romance of the Road (by Daniel Kaysen) (by Daniel Kaysen); Cooper's Creek (by Mike Lewis) (by Mike Lewis); The Mountain (by Michael Moorcock) (by Michael Moorcock); Not Responsible! Park and Lock It! (by John Kessel) (by John Kessel); The Myth of Fingerprints (by Roxane Gay) (by Roxane Gay); How I Got Away (by Leslie What) (by Leslie What); Miles to Go Before I Weep (by Brian Hodge) (by Brian Hodge); Thy Blood Like Milk (by Ian Watson) (by Ian Watson); That'll Be the Day (by Mark Timlin) (by Mark Timlin)
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2003

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Fiction and Literature, Travel
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813.008032Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy type
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PS648 .T73 .M36Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureCollections of American literatureProse (General)
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