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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Untold Lives ; |
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Marcello, Di Cintio.
Untold Lives. Spoken word ;
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Roger Wayne. |
| Summary |
In conversations with drivers ranging from veterans of foreign wars to Indigenous women protecting one another, Di Cintio explores the borderland of the North American taxi. "The taxi," writes Marcello Di Cintio, "is a border." Occupying the space between public and private, a cab brings together people who might otherwise never have met-yet most of us sit in the back and stare at our phones. Nowhere else do people occupy such intimate quarters and share so little. In a series of interviews with drivers, their backgrounds ranging from the Iraqi National Guard, to the Westboro Baptist Church, to an arranged marriage that left one woman stranded in a foreign country with nothing but a suitcase, Driven seeks out those missed conversations, revealing the unknown stories that surround us. Travelling across borders of all kinds, from battlefields and occupied lands to midnight fares and Tim Hortons parking lots, Di Cintio chronicles the many journeys each driver made merely for the privilege to turn on their rooflight. Yet these lives aren't defined by tragedy or frustration but by ingenuity and generosity, hope and indomitable hard work. From night school and sixteen-hour shifts to schemes for athletic careers and the secret Shakespeare of Dylan's lyrics, Di Cintio's subjects share the passions and triumphs that drive them. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Taxicab drivers -- Canada -- Biography.
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Taxicab drivers -- Canada -- Interviews.
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| Added Author |
Wayne, Roger.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Secret lives of taxi drivers |
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Driven (2021)
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| ISBN |
9781696606783 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1696606780 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14278675 |
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