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Author: John Jerome
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0874517559

Truck: On Rebuilding a Worn-Out Pickup and Other Post-Technological Adventures

"Know thy gadgets; first step in restoring some kind of wholeness to one's life. Get Truck literature books for free.
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 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 Check Truck our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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Nearly two decades after 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

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