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Manifest Destiny
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781944527082
Publisher: Natural Press
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Ian Bloom wrote Manifest Destiny at age 32, over four days, after his American rebirth via Star Vehicle. Spitfire.
A race as ritual. A map as metaphysics. A myth on blacktop.
Set across the quantum-bending metropolis of Los Angeles, Manifest Destiny begins as a drag race and ends as a metaphysical coronation. The Driver, The Passenger, The Actor, The Model, and The Dealer blaze through Mulholland, Topanga, Sepulveda, the I-5 Truck Route, Griffith Park, the Zoo, Forest Lawn, and the Chateau Marmont. Each curve is a choice. Each turn is a test. Each freeway is a filmstrip. Shot for shot, it's the American dream in overdrive.
Written with Bloom's signature restraint and cosmological precision, Manifest Destiny reads like Drive ghostwritten by Borges - like The Fast and the Furious reimagined by Camus - Bullitt crossed with The Holy Mountain. Racing as rite of passage, cinema as ceremony, freedom as final destination.
America - speed, sex, the open road.
God rides shotgun.
Manifest Destiny.
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