The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Po

ISBN: 0375760245

Author: Culley, Travis Hugh Hugh

Condition: new

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.Culleys voice is at once earthy and soaringly poetic-a Gen-X Tom Joad at hyperspeed. The Immortal Class is a unique personal and political narrative of a cyclists life on the street.