[PDF] Taxi Tales eBook

Author : Gündüz Ergün
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2019-04-17T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
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"I didn't say a thing... because I knew he'd turn anything I said into a pretense to beat me." Ergün Gündüz takes a sober and simple look at the citizens of the Istanbul metropolis, by inserting slivers of life experience into the backseat of a taxi. With each passenger, this two-part volume of Taxi Tales pulls the reader into the dramatic moments of a new life, deftly exploring humanity's darker and lighter sides.

Author : Aimee De Jongh
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781772620399

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An homage to the taxi driver in the age of Uber. Aimée de Jongh, one of the brightest new talents in Europe, creates her first autobiographic work, focusing on taxi rides from four cities: Los Angeles, Paris, Jakarta, and Washington, DC. Despite the stunning and detailed streetscapes she passes, de Jongh discovers she's more interested in the cab drivers than the view from the backseat. As the drivers slowly open up about their personal lives, de Jongh does too -- even when it means challenging her own ideas and prejudices. Through these vulnerable -- and often humorous -- moments, de Jongh finds common ground with the people driving her. TAXI is an ode to taxi drivers everywhere.

Author : Gündüz Ergün
Publisher : Europe Comics
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2018-11-21T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
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"The Fragrant Lady" is a tale that brings to life the recollections of an old gentleman in the back seat of Yalcin's cab. The man tells of the time he spent with an enviable French woman named Floré during the silver age of Istanbul. His too-good-to-be-true story unravels with rich illustrations by Ergün Gündüz, which are throwbacks to the days of urban glamor in Beyoglu, in stark contrast with the current state of the district.

Author : Eugene Salomon
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0007500963

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Driving a cab for more than 30 years Gene Salomon has collected a remarkable selection of stories. He shares the very best in this unforgettable memoir.

Author : Philip Parry/Glenn Pye
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1468912062

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This book is a collection of 'real' events and happenings from either Phil or Glenn, whilst working as 'private hire' taxi drivers. All the 'tales' are described as they actually happened. The 'tales' range from funny, to utterly shocking and some absolutely unbelievable, but 'all' actually happened. Hats off from the authors to all the hard working fellow 'taxi drivers'!

Author : Dmitry Samarov
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226734749

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Cabdrivers and their yellow taxis are as much a part of the cityscape as the high-rise buildings and the subway. We hail them without thought after a wearying day at the office or an exuberant night on the town. And, undoubtedly, taxi drivers have stories to tell—of farcical local politics, of colorful passengers, of changing neighborhoods and clandestine shortcuts. No one knows a city’s streets—and thus its heart—better than its cabdrivers. And from behind the wheel of his taxi, Dmitry Samarov has seen more of Chicago than most Chicagoans will hope to experience in a lifetime. An artist and painter trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Samarov began driving a cab in 1993 to make ends meet, and he’s been working as a taxi driver ever since. In Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab, he recounts tales that will delight, surprise, and sometimes shock the most seasoned urbanite. We follow Samarov through the rhythms of a typical week, as he waits hours at the garage to pick up a shift, ferries comically drunken passengers between bars, delivers prostitutes to their johns, and inadvertently observes drug deals. There are long waits with other cabbies at O’Hare, vivid portraits of street corners and their regular denizens, amorous Cubs fans celebrating after a game at Wrigley Field, and customers who are pleasantly surprised that Samarov is white—and tell him so. Throughout, Samarov’s own drawings—of his fares, of the taxi garage, and of a variety of Chicago street scenes—accompany his stories. In the grand tradition of Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Mike Royko, and Studs Terkel, Dmitry Samarov has rendered an entertaining, poignant, and unforgettable vision of Chicago and its people.

Author : Khaled Al Khamissi
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category :
ISBN : 9992194316

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A best-selling modern masterpiece in the author's home country of Egypt, Taxi consists of fifty-eight fictional monologues with Cairo taxi drivers that have been recreated from the author's own experience, taking the reader on a roller-coaster of emotions as bumpy and noisy as the city's potholed and chaotic streets. Described as an urban sociology, an ethnography, a classic of oral history - and a work of poetry in motion - it tells Herculean tales of the struggle for survival and dignity among Greater Cairo's 80,000 cab drivers.

Author : Hanoch Teller
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 25,92 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780961477288

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Heart-warming stories heard in taxis, or told by cabbies all over the world.

Author : Marcello Di Cintio
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,41 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1771963859

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Shortlisted for the Bressani Literary Prize • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A CBC Books Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2021 In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. “The taxi,” writes Marcello Di Cintio, “is a border.” Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met—yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren’t defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylan’s lyrics, Di Cintio’s subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. Like the people encountered in its pages, Driven is an unexpected delight, and that most wondrous of all things: a book that will change the way you see the world around you. A paean to the power of personality and perseverance, it’s a compassionate and joyful tribute to the men and women who take us where we want to go.