The Last Volkswagen.The Last Volkswagen Charles A. Sennewald New Century Press 1055 Bay Boulevard, Suite C, Chula Vista Chula Vista (ch  `lə), city (1990 pop. 135,163), San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1911. , CA 91911
1890035556 $15.95 209 pages 800-519-2465 www.newcenturypress.com Charles Sennewald has scored a deftly deft adj. deft·er, deft·est Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous. [Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft. written and original comedy hit with "The Last Volkswagen," an enthusiastically recommended and entertaining novel about repression of foreign competition that takes ridiculous government regulations of imports to new satiric sa·tir·i·cal or sa·tir·ic adj. Of, relating to, or characterized by satire. See Synonyms at sarcastic. sa·tir  i·cal·ly adv. extremes. Little does the unsuspecting public know that
their days of freedom to choose in the market place are numbered. In the
best of American heroic traditions, a last stand is taken and held by
the owner (a cantankerous can·tan·ker·ous adj. 1. Ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable: disliked her cantankerous landlord. 2. rancher in Nebraska) of the last remaining 1963 Volkswagen "beetle beetle, common name for insects of the order Coleoptera, which, with more than 300,000 described species, is the largest of the insect orders. Beetles have chewing mouthparts and well-developed antennae. ". The outcome? That would be telling! "The Last Volkswagen" will make you re-think more than a few stereotypes and assumptions about the ideal American life and what it can cost us to live it. |
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