Truck: A Love Story

Author : Michael Perry

Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Published date: 2007-07-31

Price: $10.99

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