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Essential Book of Pickup Trucks ARC by Fred Haefele SC Book
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Binding
- Softcover, Wraps
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Modified Item
- No
- Edition
- Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
- Original/Facsimile
- Original
- Type
- Analysis
- Unit Type
- Unit
- Region
- North America
- Features
- Uncorrected Proof, ARC, Advance Readers Copy
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781496242280
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
1496242289
ISBN-13
9781496242280
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14067054519
Product Key Features
Book Title
Essential Book of Pickup Trucks
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Essays & Travelogues, Automotive / Trucks
Publication Year
2025
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Transportation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2024-044686
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"I found The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks to be deeply pleasurable. It is honest and hilarious, simultaneously lyrical and super fucking grounded, and also tender, poignant, reflective, and real."--Jeremy N. Smith, author of Epic Measures and Breaking and Entering; the Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Named "Alien", "What better way than a memoir about pickup trucks to forge from steel, rubber, and enamel paint a rumbling portrait of an individual American life. . . . [This is] a brilliant, compelling, and wryly humorous road trip through the motorized heart of the American soul."--Peter Stark, author of Astoria and Gallop toward the Sun, "It's clear that Fred Haefele loves Montana as much as he loves old pickups. This memoir serves as a cultural history of a writer, a state, and the wheels that got him around. If you take The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks for a ride, you won't be let down."--Steven Rinella, author, podcast host, and founder of MeatEater, "Haefele's quest to be worthy of his trucks and of his loved ones is entirely engaging."--Elizabeth Stice, Orange Blossom Ordinary, "Ain't just trucks. Also chainsaws and typewriters, canoes and climbing rope, a distant dad and an undying dream, love and sex and marriage and children, failure and perseverance and mortality. Haefele delivers a three-quarter-ton load of nontoxic masculinity that smashes expectations to reveal something universal, let's call it the soul: soaring, striving, suffering. What a joy to ride along with a master at the height of his powers, hitting his stride after the decades of fits and starts he recounts with deadpan glee, now disarmingly humble--and humbled. A life fully lived, a tale exquisitely told."--Mark Sundeen, author of The Man Who Quit Money and Delusions and Grandeur, "This rollicking memoir has me missing my own past vehicles (Gus, Hero, Clyde, et al), but most of all, it has me glad to be able to ride shotgun with Haefele as he spins a tale as compelling as the open road."--Marc Beaudin, Big Sky Journal, "A great book, by a masterful practitioner. I marveled at the writing. Laughed out loud at the predicaments and antics of the dusty tree-climbing writer. Was humbled by a wise human's insights, humility, and warmth. I envied him his amazing life, wished and hope to live something similar in the American West. Now I will try to."--Robin McLean, author of Pity the Beast and Reptile House
Dewey Decimal
388.3432092
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Working-Class Hero 2. Prodigal Dude 3. Full Moon Solstice 4. Turning Pro 5. The Big One 6. The Lessons of Light Bulb 7. Vintage Natal 8. Aging Out 9. Arbor Emeritus 10. The High Ropes 11. Patina 12. Last Pickup
Synopsis
Of the sixty million pickups on U.S. highways today, just one in eight was bought for work purposes. The remaining fifty-four million are what truck dealers call "lifestyle purchases." Does the pickup impulse spring from some deep, organic longing? For agrarian roots, for simpler times, for a driving experience larger than life? The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks is a memoir about the complex role pickups have played in Fred Haefele's life and in American culture at large. Growing up near the GM truck plant in Flint, Michigan, young Haefele was delighted by these centaur-like vehicles. In his adult life as an arborist, teacher, and father, pickups bore him through hard times and disaster, high adventure, triumph, and love. Through his tenure with twelve trucks, Haefele recounts his experiences with tree climbing and academia, masculinity and motor culture. For Haefele, pickup trucks hold a unique place in the American psyche--equal parts fantasy steed and dray horse, they're avatars of the American spirit. The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks is, like his trucks, uniquely free-spirited: love story, blue-collar writer's tale, and motor-head memoir., This lively memoir details Fred Haefele's experiences with pickup trucks in each phase of his life. Uniquely free spirited, The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks is equal parts love story, blue-collar writer's tale, and motor-head memoir.
LC Classification Number
TL140.H34A3 2025
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