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The Dog of the South
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.00
ISBN13: 9781585679317
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: Jun 5 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From Charles Portis, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of True Grit, The Dog of the South is a novel about a husband on a crazy road trip pursuing his runaway wife.
Hilarious . . . A very American voice. --Bob Odenkirk, The Week
Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun, and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone.
He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr. Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten-up and broken-down bus, who needs a ride to Belize.
The farther they drive, in a car held together by coat hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily.
[Charles Portis] understood, and conveyed, the grain of America, in ways that may prove valuable in future to historians trying to understand what was decent about us as a nation. --Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review
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