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Truck : a Love Story by Michael Perry, Michael Perry is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
What is Truck : a Love Story about?
<p><P>The author of <i>Population: 485</i> returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think <i>Zen</i> and the <i>Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</i>, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track. <P>"All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck," says Michael Perry. "That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman. . . ." <i>Truck: A Love Story</i> 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 <i>Population: 485</i>, much of the spirit of <i>Truck: A Love Story</i> 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 ligh
Who reads Truck : a Love Story?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Michael Perry, Michael Perry
- Publisher
- Wisconsin Regional Library for the Blind
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060571184
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Engineering, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.93 / 5 (2,245 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13