Despite the title, this book is not a serious attempt to writing a ‘great American novel’, which is a typical literature convention to refer to works that embody the essence of America, generally written by an American and dealing in some way with the question of America's national character. If anything it is the opposite - the book conveys the impossibility of writing such a novel through a satirical lens, by telling the love story between a Ford car and a Mack truck.
