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Charles Portis Charles Porti The Dog of the South Dog Sout (Paperback Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Dog of the South
- Publication Name
- Dog South
- Title
- Dog South
- ISBN-10
- 1585679313
- EAN
- 9781585679317
- ISBN
- 9781585679317
- Publisher
- Abrams, Inc.
- Format
- Perfect
- Release Year
- 2007
- Release Date
- 05/06/2007
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 9.3 Oz
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Topic
- Absurdist, Literary, Humorous / General
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Publisher
Abrams, Inc.
ISBN-10
1585679313
ISBN-13
9781585679317
eBay Product ID (ePID)
127387439
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dog of the South
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Absurdist, Literary, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Fiction
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
9.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
³One 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 Portis¹ Dog of the Southin the house, which I¹m ashamed to say I stole because it was so funny. I had to have it! Since then I¹ve bought other copies of that book and left them at people¹s houses in an attempt to revere the karma² 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, 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, New York Times Book Review
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Twelfth Grade
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UP
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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 further 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., As a novelist with a brilliantly singular vision of America, Charles Portis has invited comparisons to Pynchon and DeLillo. This reissue of The Dog of the South, to be followed by Masters of Atlantis, Norwood, and Gringos, is the perfect Portis initiation for new readers and a welcome reunion for longtime fans.The Dog of the South is the story of Ray Midge tracking down his wife, Norma -- who has run off with her first husband -- by following credit card receipts (His credit card!). Midge starts out in Norma's lover's compact car, which has 74,000 miles on it and a quarter-turn slack in the steering wheel (They took his Ford Torino!). The trail leads from Arkansas, down to Mexico, and into Honduras, where Midge stops to help, and of course gets entangled with, Dr. Reo Symes in his broken down bus. "The Dog of the South". Symes is a pure Portis character -- a crazily optimistic, broken-down dreamer obsessed with secret knowledge in the form of John Selmer Dix, the elusive writer of inspirational books for salesmen. As Midge chases Norma and Symes tries to sort the true from the false Dix sightings, Portis spins an extraordinary novel that addresses with comic eloquence the deep longing of the American psyche for things just to make some sense., From Arkansas down to New Mexico and eventually leading to Honduras, a man is on the hunt for his wife who is following her first husband by a trail of credit card receipts., 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 Review
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