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The Dog of the South
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 . . . is, to me, 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 ReviewBook Details
- Publisher: Overlook Press
- Publish Date: Jun 5th, 2007
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 5.40in - 7.90in - 0.80in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9781585679317
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Sagas• Literary• Absurdist
About the Author
Portis, Charles: - Charles Portis (1933-2020) lived most of his life in Arkansas, where he was born and raised. He was a graduate of the University of Arkansas, which in 2018 awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War, was the London bureau chief of the New York Herald-Tribune, and was a writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of four other novels, also available from the Overlook Press: Norwood, The Dog of the South, Masters of Atlantis, and Gringos. A selection of his writing has been collected in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany.
Praise for this book
?One hot summer we rented this house near Austin, Tex., that was on a river with natural springs where you could swim. I found a paperback of Charles Portis? "Dog of the South" in the house, which I?m ashamed to say I stole because it was so funny. I had to have it! Since then I?ve bought other copies of that book and left them at people's houses in an attempt to revere the karma? Arthur Bradford, "New York Times Book Review"
]One hot summer we rented this house near Austin, Tex., that was on a river with natural springs where you could swim. I found a paperback of Charles Portis] "Dog of the South" in the house, which I]m ashamed to say I stole because it was so funny. I had to have it! Since then I]ve bought other copies of that book and left them at people]s houses in an attempt to revere the karma] Arthur Bradford, author of "Dogwalker"
One hot summer we rented this house near Austin, Tex., that was on a river with natural springs where you could swim. I found a paperback of Charles Portis "Dog of the South" in the house, which I m ashamed to say I stole because it was so funny. I had to have it! Since then I ve bought other copies of that book and left them at people s houses in an attempt to revere the karma Arthur Bradford, author of "Dogwalker""