Amaranthine Chevrolet
May 2025 · Dundurn
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A teenage boy’s curious road trip across a radically changing country.
In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin drives an antique pickup truck west from Saskatchewan, travelling on farmland and on unmapped roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situations: men on the run, hippies creating utopia, marijuana farmers, mechanical breakdowns, a raging forest fire. Robin passes through a massively changing society — a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must be both heroic and vulnerable.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin drives an antique pickup truck west from Saskatchewan, travelling on farmland and on unmapped roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situations: men on the run, hippies creating utopia, marijuana farmers, mechanical breakdowns, a raging forest fire. Robin passes through a massively changing society — a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must be both heroic and vulnerable.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
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Big Jay Taylor
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August 29, 2025
Amaranthine Chevrolet hit me like a National Film Board of Canada summer of love documentary. The tensions are very Canadian with RCMP hot on the trail of marked gas, a vaguely stolen truck, and a 15-year-old driver. The almost too likeable, viceless, and polite main character finds adventure, beauty, and wise men on the road to prepare him for traumagic (traumatic/nostalgic) meeting with his estranged father. Tight prose. Short sentences. Good story. On an accessibility level, as a dyslexic, I found the lack of quotation marks on dialogue a frustrating choice. I often struggled with who was speaking.
About the author
Dennis E Bolen is the author of several novels, short story collections, and one volume of poetry. His fiction explores the experience of varied careers: social worker, university instructor, arts journalist, accounts clerk, mill worker, farm hand. He grew up on Vancouver Island and now lives in Victoria, B.C.
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