Automobiles Shaping Society -- New Book Exposes Gallery Of Cars And Describes How It Affected People's Lives

MCLEAN, Va., June 29, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Journey back into the height of the twentieth century where automobiles dictated the lifestyle of the society. This astounding collection released through Xlibris, Lives & Loves in Cars, is a brilliant part-gallery, part-memoir masterpiece resulting from a beautiful collaboration of author Alex Dellasandro and the assistance of master mechanic Joe Aile.

Americans love, even lust after, automobiles. This foregone conclusion has become part of a great American tradition. Lives & Loves in Cars exposes, in voluptuous detail, the shapes, colors, and styles of cars now long gone. It describes the landscapes and adventures of youth and maturity can be seen in glimpses of bygone cars, in old movies, photographs, and during nationwide popular antique car rallies.

With these cars, love, courtship, and family became involved. Each vehicle symbolized a particular period of life and the peculiar history and tensions of its times. Each became a talisman of things to come. Some became milestones toward freedom. Each offered an ever-present means of escape to distant places, new adventures, and new opportunities, and each became part of the landscape of childhood, youth, and adult lives.

Enjoy this fictional biography of people's lives and loves enriched through automobiles in this engaging must-have book, Lives & Loves in Cars. For more information, log on to www.Xlibris.com.

About the Author

Alex Dellasandro is a retired physician who found love in automobiles. He has driven each automobie he has included in this book.

           Lives & Loves in Cars * by Alex Dellasandro
                Publication Date: March 8, 2005
     Trade Paperback; $17.84; 114 pages; ISBN 978-1-4134-6645-4
      Trade Hardback; $27.89; 114 pages; ISBN 978-1-4134-6646-1

Members of the media who wish to review this book may request a complimentary paperback copy by contacting the publisher at (888) 795-4274 x. 7479. To purchase copies of the book for resale, please fax Xlibris at (610) 915-0294 or call (888) 795-4274 x. 7876.

For more information, contact Xlibris at (888) 795-4274 or on the web at www.Xlibris.com.

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