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The Last Taxi Driver by Lee Durkee (2020, Hardcover)

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Objectstaat
Vrijwel nieuw: Een boek dat er als nieuw uitziet, maar al wel is gelezen. De kaft is niet zichtbaar ...
ISBN
9781947793392
Book Title
Last Taxi Driver
Publisher
Tin House Books, LLC
Item Length
8.8 in
Publication Year
2020
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Lee Durkee
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Biographical, Humorous / General
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Width
5.9 in
Number of Pages
280 Pages

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Hailed by George Saunders as "a true original--a wise and wildly talented writer," Lee Durkee takes readers on a high-stakes cab ride through an unforgettable shift. Meet Lou--a lapsed novelist, struggling Buddhist, and UFO fan--who drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi college town. With Uber moving into town and his way of life vanishing, his girlfriend moving out, and his archenemy dispatcher suddenly returning to town on the lam, Lou must finish his bedlam shift by aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his disintegrating Town Car. Lou is forced to decide how much he can take as a driver, and whether keeping his job is worth madness and heartbreak.Shedding nuts and bolts, The Last Taxi Driver careens through highways and back roads, from Mississippi to Memphis, as Lou becomes increasingly somnambulant and his fares increasingly eccentric. Equal parts Bukowski and Portis, Durkee's darkly comic novel is a feverish, hilarious, and gritty look at a forgotten America and a man at life's crossroads.

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Publisher
Tin House Books, LLC
ISBN-10
194779339x
ISBN-13
9781947793392
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038391677

Product Key Features

Book Title
Last Taxi Driver
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Literary, Biographical, Humorous / General
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
Author
Lee Durkee
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
14.7 Oz
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Width
5.9 in

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Reviews
A gonzo ride full of dark humor, philosophical insights and shrewd observations about the plight of luckless people in the United States., Remarkable . . . part Denis Johnson-ish carnival of the wrecked, part Nietzschean Twilight of the Gods (or Twilight of the Taxicabs)., A wild, funny, poetic fever-dream that will change the way you think about America. Durkee is a true original--a wise and wildly talented writer who knows something profound about that special strain of American darkness that comes out of blended paucity, materialism, and addiction--but also, in the joy and honesty and wit of the prose, he offers a way out. I loved this book and felt jangled and inspired and changed by it., In Lou, Durkee has created a fascinatingly complex character . . . Durkee tackles race and poverty, violence of many varieties, loss and longing, and the power of the imagination. Lou's excruciating day will make readers cringe, and the recounting of his traumas is more than unsettling. This is a dark, feverish, and weird tale that remains compelling throughout., It may be the worst day of Lou Bishoff's life, but The Last Taxi Driver is a frenetic, voyeuristic delight. A Mississippi Buddhist doing his best to be kind, Lou ferries around meth heads and rehab escapees, drives overgrown frat boys to and from drug dens, and wonders at what point he stops being a cab driver and starts being an accomplice. Timely and compulsively readable, Durkee's long-awaited second novel makes me regret how much I've missed by being a (reasonably) sober and compliant passenger., The Last Taxi Driver is a road novel . . . rooted firmly in our America. The novel almost makes other fiction in that Southern tradition seem frivolous by comparison., The Last Taxi Driver is a Canterbury Tales for our time . . . Decentralized, atomized, and alternately tranquilized and jacked up on cheap beer and meth, this is the world of Beckett, Godard, Robbe-Grillet., The working-class realism of Charles Bukowski with the countercultural flamboyance of Hunter S. Thompson. . . . Yet somehow, the author creates such a vivid likeness of life that readers can't help but feel uplifted. There's beauty in the beastliness. Don't miss this one., The funniest writer you've never heard of, but that may change. His 2001 debut, Rides of the Midway, is a 1970s coming-of-age masterpiece . . . Now, nearly twenty years later, at last we have Durkee's second book, his own reboot, and wow is it worth the wait . . . a future Tom Waits vehicle if there ever was one., For devotees of the offbeat and grit lit writers like Larry Brown and Mary Miller. Follow the air freshener rocking back and forth, taking you under its spell, as Durkee takes you for a ride., A stone cold masterpiece. Haven't felt this way since reading Jesus' Son and Bringing Out the Dead for the first time. Raw, revelatory, honest, full of kindness and anger and sadness and compassion., The Last Taxi Driver is unpredictable, emotionally moving, and laugh-out-loud funny. Lee Durkee writes with honesty and deep insight. This book is filled with compassion. I loved it. The best book I've read in years., A gonzo ride full of dark humor, philosophical insights, and shrewd observations about the plight of luckless people in the United States., This book's a blast! A super-long shift in thelife of a north Mississippi taxi driver makes for hilarious moments as well aslyrical ones. Durkee's Mississippi is entirely his own as he parades a line ofpassengers that are as colorful, sad, and strange as any in literature. Aterrific novel by a terrific writer!, Much of what makes Lee Durkee's novel so delightful and surprising is his ability to dig beneath the surface of this funny, well-told odyssey, which channels a Shakespearean tragedy. This twenty-year follow up to his debut novel, Rides of the Midway, was worth the wait.
Dewey Edition
23
Lccn
2019-031489
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Lc Classification Number
Ps3554.U6865l37 2020
Copyright Date
2020

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