The Red Truck

By Rudy Wilson

Book Overview

This is the first Ravenna Press edition of Wilson's novel, a cult favorite originally published in 1987 by Knopf, with a new Introduction by Marc Kipniss. Published alongside his short story... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394558464
• ISBN13: 9780394558462
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and surrealistic

This is going to be quite a short review, since it's been years since I've read this book. I do remember just how beautiful and vivid a picture the words paint. Pick it up now that its coming out in paperback. I had to spend like 25 bux on a used copy of the hardback edition because it was so hard to find. It's definately worth it. Oh yes, beware, it has a morbid twist to it, (not freaky or insane, just a darker feel) so if you hate that in a book, this might not be for you.

Down-to-Earth Yet Otherworldly

While absorbing this book, at times I couldn't hold it close enough. I experienced a genuine oneness with the world Rudy created. In the next moment, the shift in my awareness it caused was so foreign, I wanted to throw the book as far away from me as possible. But of course, I held on... for all I was worth. This is a real literary treasure, in a class of its own as is the author. I look forward to reading more of Mr. Wilson's work.

It was beautiful, moving, sad and enthralling.

I loved this book. It was sad, yet beautiful. It was different and totally colorful and sensitive and strange. Thanks -

A stunning and eerie first novel.

I first read The Red Truck years ago. It completely blew me away then, and, upon my fifth reread, it continues to do so. The novel is eerie, almost otherworldly, and Wilson's use of colors and images leaves the reader feeling disjoined and yet strangely connected to the characters of his world. The Red Truck is absolutely a masterpiece and should not be missed. If you can find a copy (if Wilson's stalwart but small base of maniacal fans haven't snatched them all up) by all means buy it, read it, love it. Disturbing, beautiful, terrible, honest, gripping, sad, lonely