Truck A Love Story Essay
Man’s True Love
The way this man talks about his truck is how so many American men talk of their automobiles. For good or bad, automobiles are key to our own uniqueness. When there were no such things as cars, did humans worship their buggies and horse drawn carriages in the same way? Did we love their horses as much as we love our Mercedes? Perhaps. Now days, we love our cars, but hate that they devour so much expensive gasoline. We might love our cars for sentimental motives as well. There are so many men in the world and some women who put their automobiles above all else. This is something I can’t bring myself to understand but then again my hobbies may be misunderstood as well. This book however did help me come to a certain extent of an understanding of why and how someone could become so attached to an inanimate object.
The book, Truck, a Love Story by Michael Perry, is a crazy all over the place writing on living in a tiny town, in the tiny town way of life as it meets up with the 21st century way of life, including malls and paved roads. The book was published in October 2006 by Harper Perennial, the author Michael Perry has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Salon, and the Utne Reader. A contributing editor to Men's Health, he lives in northern Wisconsin with his family. The character Perry jumps to so many different topics it was somewhat hard to keep track and recap them. But Perry writes it so flawlessly, that the book is a fast paced and pleasurable to read. We absorb a lot him in his young self in detail, starting with his love life, his mullet hairstyle, his …show more content…
The book is surprising, funny, entertaining and warm. It would be too easy to say that at the end of the year in Wisconsin the truck is running or that Perry is with his new found
The way this man talks about his truck is how so many American men talk of their automobiles. For good or bad, automobiles are key to our own uniqueness. When there were no such things as cars, did humans worship their buggies and horse drawn carriages in the same way? Did we love their horses as much as we love our Mercedes? Perhaps. Now days, we love our cars, but hate that they devour so much expensive gasoline. We might love our cars for sentimental motives as well. There are so many men in the world and some women who put their automobiles above all else. This is something I can’t bring myself to understand but then again my hobbies may be misunderstood as well. This book however did help me come to a certain extent of an understanding of why and how someone could become so attached to an inanimate object.
The book, Truck, a Love Story by Michael Perry, is a crazy all over the place writing on living in a tiny town, in the tiny town way of life as it meets up with the 21st century way of life, including malls and paved roads. The book was published in October 2006 by Harper Perennial, the author Michael Perry has written for numerous publications, including Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Salon, and the Utne Reader. A contributing editor to Men's Health, he lives in northern Wisconsin with his family. The character Perry jumps to so many different topics it was somewhat hard to keep track and recap them. But Perry writes it so flawlessly, that the book is a fast paced and pleasurable to read. We absorb a lot him in his young self in detail, starting with his love life, his mullet hairstyle, his …show more content…
The book is surprising, funny, entertaining and warm. It would be too easy to say that at the end of the year in Wisconsin the truck is running or that Perry is with his new found