Truck

by John Jerome

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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.

Nearly two decades after publication in 1977, the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0874517559
  • ISBN13 9780874517552
  • Publish Date 1 May 1996
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University Press of New England
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 155
  • Language English