A Second Life: A Collected Nonfiction

by Dan Gerber

A Second Life brings together several new pieces with the best of Dan Gerber's previously published essays and magazine stories, many of which have appeared in magazines such as Outside, Playboy, Sports Afield, and Sports Illustrated. Gerber limns his experience as a professional racing driver, journalist, sailor, and fisherman with a poet's eye and a novelist's gift for narrative, believing, as he states in his introduction,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870135899
• ISBN13: 9780870135897
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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A great read for anyone fortunate enough to have driven in competition or wanted to.

A fascinating wealth of lore and insight

A Second Life: A Collected Nonfiction by award winning writer and poet Dan Gerber is an extensive selection of the best of his previously published essays and magazine stories, which were individually published in such periodical titles as Outside, Playboy, Sports Afield, and Sports Illustrated. Several brand new pieces never before published crown this fascinating wealth of lore and insight, filled with personal experiences ranging from Gerber's days as a professional racing driver to his work as a journalist, sailor, and fisherman. A broad range of human experience fills this amazing compilation. A Second Life is engaging, informative, compelling reading from first page to last!