Books like Truck by Katherine Dunn
Katherine Dunn's debut novel, Truck, follows Dutch Gillis, a feisty and adventurous adolescent, as she sets out on a quest to find herself on a road trip from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles. Accompanied by her friend Heydorf, a shadowy character with his own secrets to hide, Dutch embarks on a journey filled with discoveries and sudden violence, much like the river trek of Deliverance. Along the way, she encounters confusion and volatile feelings of youth, as sex is a mystery waiting to be understood, and death seems distant until it brushes close with a breath-stopping suddenness.
First publish date: 1971
Genre: Adventure Fiction/Action Adventure
Authors: Katherine Dunn
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