The Red Truck by Rudy Wilson
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Overview: This is the story of Billy-Billy Jump and Teddianne Sayers. They tell it to us—strangely, very strangely—in their own appalled, stuporous, bewildered words. The time is the 1950s; the place, small town in the rural South. Transfixed by the accidental death of his little brother, Billy-Billy Jump turns inward; he dreams of a girl. She is his double, a doppelganger, himself as another self somewhere remote from where he is. Billy-Billy Jump comes to construe this presence as the offered replacement of a kind of absence in himself. Only in her, through her, with her, can he complete himself, make himself whole. The world turns away from him—parents, playmates, school. There is nothing but the girl, the sensation of the girl, her ghostly promise of some kind of spiritual fulfilment. But who is she? Where is she? In the queer syntax of Billy-Billy Jump’s disordered heart, the girl answers his quest by transforming herself into Billy-Billy’s idea of Christ, whereas she, Teddianne Sayers—quite apart from the influence of Billy-Billy’s example—is consumed by a very different idea of Christ. She has seen Him—on the streets, at the curb—He ia a red truck. It is from these materials that Rudy Wilson conflects a nightmare of widening dementia. Darting back and forth in time and imagination to the lives that they might once have lived and to the that they yearn to live, Billy-Billy and Teddianne careen along a macabre American dreamscape in search of an end to their endless searching. The result is a novel certain to be recorded as one of the most unsettling, erotic, and unshakable narratives in recent literary history.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Southern Fiction
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