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Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup and Other Post-Technological Adventures Paperback - 1996
by Jerome, John
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- Title Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup and Other Post-Technological Adventures
- Author Jerome, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 155
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press of New England
- Date 1996-04-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52YZZZ02C77E_ns
- ISBN 9780874517552 / 0874517559
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.47 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.19 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Jerome, John - Philosophy, Dodge trucks - Conservation and restoration
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96003911
- Dewey Decimal Code 629.288
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A year-long odyssey under the hood of a 1950 Dodge pickup 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 the first publication, 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.
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- Library Journal, 04/01/1997, Page 134