Learning to Drive Now a major motion picture starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben KingsleyCelebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of essays drawn from the authors own life. With deep feeling and sharp insight, Pollitt writes about the death of her father the sad but noble final days of a leftist study group of which she was a member and the betrayal and heartbreak inflicted by a man who seriously deceived her. Her infinitely patient, gentle driving instructor points out her weakness—Observation, Katha, observation! She also offers a candid view of her preoccupation with her ex-lovers haunting presence on the Internet, and her search there for a secret link that might provide a revelation about him that will Explain Everything.
