Truck by John Jerome

Truck by John Jerome

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.

Long after its publication in 1977, 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; it's a mistake, he says, to assume there is a point on that line between the caveman's club and the moon shot that marks the moral turnaround, before which technology was somehow benign, after which it is malign. While Jerome gains a truck that runs--sometimes--we gain new insight into a technology that continues to encroach upon our lives.

JOHN JEROME lived in western Massachusetts and was the author of many books, including The Sweet Spot in Time, Stone Work, and On Turning Sixty-Five. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked at Car and Driver magazine and Skiing magazine. He died in 2002.

SKU	GOR002863913
ISBN 13	9780874517552
ISBN 10	0874517559
Titel	Truck
Autor	John Jerome
Buchzustand	Sehr Gut
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University Press of New England
Erscheinungsjahr	1996-05-01
Seitenanzahl	155
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