{"product_id":"9780060571177","title":"Truck: A Love Story","description":"The author of \u003ci\u003ePopulation: 485\u003c\/i\u003e returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think \u003ci\u003eZen\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eArt of Motorcycle Maintenance\u003c\/i\u003e, complete with stock cars, sexy vegetables, and a laugh track.\u003cp\u003e\"All I wanted to do was fix my old pickup truck,\" says Michael Perry. \"That, and plant my garden. Then I met this woman. . . .\" \u003ci\u003eTruck: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePopulation: 485\u003c\/i\u003e, much of the spirit of \u003ci\u003eTruck: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e 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 light beer, an enchanting woman who never existed, and half the staff of National Public Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns hilarious and heartfelt, a tale that begins on a pile of sheep manure, detours to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and returns to the deer-hunting swamps of northern Wisconsin, \u003ci\u003eTruck: A Love Story\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a testament to the surprising and unintended consequences of love. 1006\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021254213872,"sku":"9780060571177","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780060571177_p0.jpg?v=1763767608","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780060571177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}