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Lawrence Donegan is in California in pursuit of the new American Dream - hi-tech success and fortune. But after one miserable day in front of a computer screen, he asks himself if this is really it - a walk-on part in "The Revenge of the Nerds"? Searching for salvation, he winds up at Orchard Boulevard Pre-Owned Autos - home of the world's biggest used-car lot. Seven thousand cars on offer every day, forty-five thousand satisfied customers every year, all on one street! "California Dreaming" is the story of Donegan's life as a used-car salesman and his pursuit of the used-car industry's Oscar - the Salesman of the Month Award. It is also the story of men and their dreams: Frankie the Rock, Tony the Tank, Mickey the Legend. Who are they? What drew them to the world's most maligned profession? Is there nothing they won't do to sell a car? Honest, insightful and funny, "California Dreaming" tells you everything you need to know about modern America. It may change the way you feel about used-car salesmen. Then again, it may not.
Amazon.co.uk
Some time after he quit as bass-player with 80s popsters the Bluebells, 30-something Scot Lawrence Donegan became a Californian used-car salesman. California Dreaming is his account of that unique spiritual journey.
It could have been a literary disaster. Thankfully Donegan is as good with a word processor as he was with a Rickenbacker: California Dreaming is funny, clever, sharp and very readable. And as the book chugs spiritedly along, investigating the seamy underside (and overside) of daily life at Orchard Pre-Owned Autos, it also pulls the neat trick of making you like and empathise with the victims of its well-observed satire.
The narrative dynamic of this travelogue-cum-autobiography derives from the reader's wonderment at whether Donegan will ever sell a motor. He starts off by being amusingly awful, a "greenpea", he can't "work the line" to save his life. But with tuition from his colourful comrades on the car lot, he improves. By the end he's a real pro, able to sell a 77 Mustang just as well as Tony "The Tank" Tognazzini. En route to this ultimate epiphany, Donegan goes to classic LA parties and clichd LA shopping malls, thereby getting to see a slice of the American Dream from the perspective of the American Worker. If the result isn't immortal reportage, it's still a hoot: California Dreaming is a very decent little runner indeed. --Sean Thomas --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。
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