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Owning a folding bicycle has allowed former Talking Heads singer, solo musician, artist, and author David Byrne to explore many a city on two small wheels. Among others, he's scoped out Sydney, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Detroit--and of course his hometown of New York. This causal little book brings together Byrne's bicycling-inspired musings on everything from urban planning to world music. Fans of his art looking for that particular Byrnesian idiosyncratic style will not be disappointed! Full of thoughtful, honest, humorous, whimsical, and critical thoughts, BICYCLE DIARIES captures something of what it's like to wend your way through an urban environment on a self-powered machine: you catch quick and sometimes slightly more prolonged flashes of sights, sounds, and smells that are beautiful, stinky, funny, frustrating, and invigorating.
| Size | | Length: | 297 pages | | Height: | 8.5 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Candid and self-deprecating, Byrne offers a work that is as engaging as it is cerebral and informative."
(07/13/2009)
"Byrne is on a mission. If cities and suburbs can be more bike-friendly, then maybe the people in them will interact on deeper levels as well."
(09/13/2009)
"[H]e often writes like a shell-shocked alien recently landed on Earth and suffering from a mild case of Asperger's, and I mean that as a compliment...."
(09/17/2009)
"[W]hether you're a cyclist or not, Byrne's insights...are wry, witty, and, more often than not, wise as well."
(09/20/2009)
"[D]on't let the faux-naif persona Byrne has so ably cultivated in his work fool you. The rock star who sang about burning buildings, highways and life during wartime turns out to be an acute observer of the urban condition, a veritable rolling philosopher. The evidence is in BICYCLE DIARIES...his seventh book, a breezy, loosely threaded compendium of accounts of the places he sees and the people he meets in his urban bike-wanderings."
(09/22/2009)
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