Truck - 9780060571177
Un libro in lingua di Michael Perry edito da Harpercollins, 2006
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The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track.
"All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman. . . ." Truck: A Love Story recounts a year in which Perry struggles to grow his own food ("Seed catalogs are responsible for more unfulfilled fantasies than Enron and Penthouse combined"), live peaceably with his neighbors (one test-fires his black powder rifle in the alley; another's best Sunday shirt reads 100 PERCENT WHUP-ASS), and sort out his love life. But along the way, he sets his hair on fire, is attacked by wild turkeys, takes a date to the fire department chicken dinner, and proposes marriage to a woman in New Orleans. As with Population: 485, much of the spirit of Truck: A Love Story may be found in the characters Perry meets: a one-eyed land surveyor, a paraplegic biker who rigs a sidecar so that his quadriplegic pal can ride along, a bartender who refuses to sell light beer, an enchanting woman who never existed, and half the staff of National Public Radio.
By turns hilarious and heartfelt, a tale that begins on a pile of sheep manure, detours to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and returns to the deer-hunting swamps of northern Wisconsin, Truck: A Love Story becomes a testament to the surprising and unintended consequences of love. 1006
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Truck
- Sottotitolo: A Love Story
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Michael Perry
- Editore: Harpercollins
- Collana: Harpercollins (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Ottobre '06
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : IHC trucks Maintenance and repair Popular works Antique and classic trucks Popular works Popular culture United States Popular works
- Pagine: 281
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0060571179
- EAN-13: 9780060571177