Rivethead - Ben Hamper [127]
to chronicle his outrageous career as an unhinged assembly-line grunt. From pulling double shifts to drinking and drug-taking, from GM's idea of quality control (a life-size “Quality Cat” who patrolled the line) to the gonzo characters who worked at Hamper's side, this is an extraordinary story of humanity trapped in a netherworld of suffocating noise, boredom, and absurdity that is by turns hilarious and tragic.
“This can't be what Henry Ford had in mind…. If you want a real whiff of life from the assembly line to the unemployment line, pack away your Bruce Springsteen CDs and pick up RIVETHEAD.”
—BOSTON GLOBE