Working for Wages

On the Road in the Fifties

by Peter Browning

Working for Wages is a memoir of nearly a decade on a driveaway job—driving new cars and trucks from Detroit to Los Angeles between May 1949 and December 1958. Herein an account of who we were, how we lived, and how we talked—the record of a vanished way of life in a country that has changed beyond belief during the last fifty years.

Humorous and moving episodes: the stories of

• Little Reno on the River

• The Good Soldier

• The Skirmish of Tippecanoe

• The All-Bran Affair

• The Kid With the Jealous Eyes   —    and many more.

• None of these tales is precisely true in every respect, yet none is false. Most of the names have been changed to protect the innocent and the guilty alike.

Trade paperback,
181 pages, 6 x 9
ISBN: 0-944220-15-0
$15.95

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