Learning to Drive

By William Norwich

About Learning to Drive
At the advanced age of thirty-seven, Julian Orr—a journalist at a New York fashion and gossip magazine and resident expert on twentieth-century urban living—learns to drive. His object is a driver's license that will allow him to visit his parents' graves in the small Connecticut town where he underwent a puzzling but tender childhood. But what begins as an innocent act of personal liberation, with the help of Hector, the driving-instructor-from-hell, suddenly escalates crazily, terrifyingly out of control. Poignant and startlingly funny, Learning to Drive is not to be missed. The e-book edition published in 2019 includes a new preface by the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
• Release date: Jun 11, 2019
• ISBN: 9780802148001

William Norwich

William Norwich is a writer, editor, and video and television reporter. He is the author of the novels My Mrs. Brown and Learning to Drive as well as the children’s book Molly and the Magic Dress. Norwich also has written introductions and essays for many pictorial books. Currently the editor for fashion and interior design at Phaidon Press, he has also written and edited for The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, and New York magazine. Norwich is a graduate of the writing program at Columbia University (MFA), Hampshire College (BA), and the Pomfret School. He lives in New York City.