Gravity’s Volkswagen is full of love for the VW Beetle, for writing, for filmmaking and for the wilder side of Americana. It is absurd and funny and brilliantly truthful both about the vanities of the film industry and about the stunt driver’s obedience to the laws of gravity.
Geoff Nicholson is the author of twenty books including The Lost Art of Walking, Hunters and Gatherers, Footsucker, Street Sleeper and Bleeding London, which was short listed for the Whitbread Prize.