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Written By : Charles Portis
Edward Lewis
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 9 hours
Categories : Fiction
Download Price : $32.95 $16.95
As a novelist of unique wit and vision, Charles Portis has invited
comparisons to Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, and his writing has garnered
accolades from the likes of Roy Blount, Jr., Nora Ephron, and Sam Shepard. This
classic novel, the first in a series of Portis re-issues, is a perfect invitation into this
masters brilliantly singular view of America.
The Dog of the South is the story of Ray Midge as he tracks down his wife,
Normawho has run off with her first husbandby following credit card receipts
(his credit card!). Midge starts out in Normas lovers 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 charactera crazily optimistic dreamer
obsessed with secret knowledge and with one John Selmer Dix, the elusive writer of
inspirational books for salesmen. As Midge chases Norma and Symes and tries to sort
the 1 from the 0 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.
The hero is a cross between Buster Keaton and Don Quixote. . . and Charles Portis has
blessed him with a supremely funny adventure.
The New Yorker
comparisons to Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, and his writing has garnered
accolades from the likes of Roy Blount, Jr., Nora Ephron, and Sam Shepard. This
classic novel, the first in a series of Portis re-issues, is a perfect invitation into this
masters brilliantly singular view of America.
The Dog of the South is the story of Ray Midge as he tracks down his wife,
Normawho has run off with her first husbandby following credit card receipts
(his credit card!). Midge starts out in Normas lovers 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 charactera crazily optimistic dreamer
obsessed with secret knowledge and with one John Selmer Dix, the elusive writer of
inspirational books for salesmen. As Midge chases Norma and Symes and tries to sort
the 1 from the 0 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.
The hero is a cross between Buster Keaton and Don Quixote. . . and Charles Portis has
blessed him with a supremely funny adventure.
The New Yorker
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