Publication

1990 - Warner Books, New York, NY, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,250 words, Guess

Page Count

213 pages

Identifiers

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  • Goodreads75848
  • LibraryThing2212496

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3554.U47 T78 1990
  • LCCPS3554.U47T78 1990

Description

With daring realism and stunning imagination, the author of Geek Love, Katherine Dunn, takes us on a journey into the mind of a feisty, adventurous adolescent named Jean "Dutch" Gillis. Dutch goes "trucking" from Portland, Oregon, to Los Angeles on a quest in search of herself, which, like the river trek of Deliverance, is filled with discoveries and sudden violence. With boyish-looking Dutch is her friend Heydorf, a shadowy character who has his own secrets to hide. With her, too, is the confusion and volatile feelings of youth, when sex is a mystery waiting to be understood...and death seems remote until it brushes close with a breath-stopping suddenness. Truck, perhaps better than any other fictional account about a runaway, is a brilliantly convincing portrait of the archetypal teen rebel, and both the excitement and the terrible betrayals in the world she explores.

Description

Jean "Dutch" Gillis goes "trucking" from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles on a quest in search of herself.

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Other Editions

  • TruckWarner Books1990

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