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- Condition
- Book Title
- Truck : on Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup and Other Post-Technological Adventures
- Publication Name
- Truck
- Title
- Truck
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0874517559
- EAN
- 9780874517552
- ISBN
- 9780874517552
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Genre
- Transportation, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Automotive / Trucks, Essays
- Release Year
- 1996
- Release Date
- 01/05/1996
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publication Year
- 1996
- Features
- Reprint
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 6.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 155 Pages
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"Know thy gadgets; first step in restoring some kind of wholeness to one's life." So observes John Jerome about his purpose for rebuilding a 1950 Dodge pickup. Yes, he needs the truck to haul manure, but Jerome also hopes that "by knowing every nut, lockwasher, and cotter pin I could have a machine that had some meaning to me." Thus his year-long odyssey under the hood, among the brake shoes and valves, becomes more than a mechanic's memoir; it is a meditation on machines, metaphysics, and the moral universe. Long after its publication in 1977, the essential dilemma of Truck still rings true: as Jerome dismantles the aged straight six, he also disassembles our reliance on "two-hundred-dollar appliances that sport flaws in thirty-five-cent parts" and decries the "deliberate encapsulation, impenetrability, of the overtechnologized things with which we furnish our lives." Despite gouged knuckles, a frigid New Hampshire winter, frustrating and inexplicable assemblies, and a close call when the truck rolls off its jacks, he perseveres. In the end, he admits, "I did not find God out there in the barn among the cans of nuts and bolts." What he does find, however, is that he must make peace with technology; it's a mistake, he says, to "assume there is a point on that line between the caveman's club and the moon shot that marks the moral turnaround, before which technology was somehow benign, after which it is malign." While Jerome gains a truck that runs--sometimes--we gain new insight into a technology that continues to encroach upon our lives.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of New England
ISBN-10
0874517559
ISBN-13
9780874517552
eBay Product ID (ePID)
305808
Product Key Features
Book Title
Truck : on Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup and Other Post-Technological Adventures
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
Automotive / Trucks, Essays
Publication Year
1996
Genre
Transportation, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
155 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Tl230.5.D63j47 1996
Edition Description
Reprint
Reviews
"I loved John Jerome's Truck . . . The book is not so much about automotive mechanics as it is about mind and matter . . . About obsession and compulsion, joy and doubt, rage and forgiveness." ÑChristopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, If there is a Zen to the art of truck repair -- and Jerome proves there is -- it is captured with homespun wisdom, humor, and poetry in this gem of a book., "I loved John Jerome's Truck . . . The book is not so much about automotive mechanics as it is about mind and matter . . . About obsession and compulsion, joy and doubt, rage and forgiveness." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, If there is a Zen to the art of truck repair - and Jerome proves there is - it is captured with homespun wisdom, humor, and poetry in this gem of a book., "If there is a Zen to the art of truck repair - and Jerome proves there is - it is captured with homespun wisdom, humor, and poetry in this gem of a book." - Publishers Weekly, "I loved John Jerome's Truck . . . The book is not so much about automotive mechanics as it is about mind and matter . . . About obsession and compulsion, joy and doubt, rage and forgiveness." -Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, I loved John Jerome's Truck . . . The book is not so much about automotive mechanics as it is about mind and matter . . . About obsession and compulsion, joy and doubt, rage and forgiveness., "I loved John Jerome's Truck . . . The book is not so much about automotive mechanics as it is about mind and matter . . . About obsession and compulsion, joy and doubt, rage and forgiveness." --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times, "A relaxed Thoreauvian journal . . . In the end, the truck does work and so does this book."- Time Magazine, "I loved John Jerome's Truck . . . The book is not so much about automotive mechanics as it is about mind and matter . . . About obsession and compulsion, joy and doubt, rage and forgiveness."-Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
9639-000011
Dewey Decimal
629.28/73
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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