Confessions of a Fast Woman

by Lesley Hazleton

A car columnist for Lear's magazine reveals her infatuation with fast cars, describing how she learned to handle a formula race car and became a mechanic's apprentice.

Paperback

First published September 1, 1992

About the author

1. My new book 'Jezebel: the untold story of the bible's harlot queen' is just out (Doubleday). Yes, she was framed. No, she was no harlot. Yes, she was magnificent.

2. Won't bore you with the whole bio -- it's in the 'About the Author' page on www.jezebelbook.com. For now: British-born, lived for a long time in the Middle East, now live in the very Pacific Northwest.

3. Favorite drink is grappa.
Natural habitat is high desert (which must have something to do with my living on a houseboat/floating home at sea level...)
Am gnostic agnostic (and yes, will write a long piece/short book explaining that one day).

Reviews

[Nancy]

I especially enjoyed the details of the author's apprenticeship as a car mechanic, as well as the musings on why she found such an attraction to what is typically considered a man's world. However, the underlying quest to understand the daemon of speed that inhabited her soul felt constructed and overly dramatic, and detracted from the rest of the otherwise fascinating story.

[Dylan McNamee]

Her description of driving a Lamborghini on a track was so visceral, I felt I didn't ever need to drive anything like that myself. Ms. Hazleton is a good writer, and takes us on an interesting voyage through faster and fancier cars, until ultimately coming around to advocating electric cars.