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
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