· Words fall a bit short when describing Christopher Boucher’s debut novel How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive.I have to imagine that trying to explain this book — its complexity, its brilliance, the way it manages to make perfect emotional sense even though almost everything about it is, on the surface at least, absurd — must pose a significant marketing challenge. · How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is a book about mechanics, writing and, inadvertently, Cartesian philosophy of mind. It describes an absurdly improbable world inhabited by two absurdly improbable kinds of creatures: 1) heart-bearing machines that feel, talk, think, and feed on stories and 2) animals that need to make and tell stories in order to fully inhabit their worlds in a /5. Welcome to Christopher Boucher's zany literary universe, a place where metaphors shift beneath your feet, familiar words assume new meanings, objects talk, trees attack, and time actually is money.1/5(1).
Golden Delicious is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Christopher Boucher's acclaimed debut, How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. It's a tour-de-force unlike any other, that takes you to the heart of family, love and memory. CHRISTOPHER BOUCHER teaches writing and literature at Boston College, and is the managing editor of Post Road Magazine. Boucher (How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive) suggests that a place can be a text. That place is the town of Appleseed, Mass., and it's a world at risk. Things go bad for Appleseed when bookworms with "print-based" bodies that let them change into endless characters or ideas infest the town, ruining the apple crop. Christopher Boucher is the author of the novels How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive and Golden Delicious. He's also an Associate Professor of the Practice of English at Boston College and the managing editor of Post Road Magazine. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.
How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive tells the story of a newspaper reporter living in western Massachusetts and trying to raise his son, a Volkswagen Beet. Words fall a bit short when describing Christopher Boucher’s debut novel How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive.I have to imagine that trying to explain this book — its complexity, its brilliance, the way it manages to make perfect emotional sense even though almost everything about it is, on the surface at least, absurd — must pose a significant marketing challenge. How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is a book about mechanics, writing and, inadvertently, Cartesian philosophy of mind. It describes an absurdly improbable world inhabited by two absurdly improbable kinds of creatures: 1) heart-bearing machines that feel, talk, think, and feed on stories and 2) animals that need to make and tell stories in order to fully inhabit their worlds in a satisfying way.
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