Dog of the South

Dog of the South

By Charles Portis
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“Charles Portis may be the sneakiest comedian in American letters, not to mention one of the funniest. And there's no better specimen of his double-edged art than The Dog of the South, which Overlook Press has recently rescued from a long, cruel, out-of-print limbo … Still, you won't find a more delicious (or less reliable) narrator in contemporary fiction, and Charles Portis's genius for inventing all-American eccentrics is anything but futile.”

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As a novelist of unique wit and vision, Charles Portis has garnered accolades from the likes of Jonathan Lethem, Nora Ephron, Sam Shepard, and Stephen King. His classic novel The Dog of the South is a perfect invitation into this master’s brilliantly singular view of America. 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!). The trail leads from Arkansas down to Mexico, and into Honduras, where Midge 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 dreamer obsessed with an elusive writer. As Midge chases Norma and tries to sort the true from the false, Portis spins an extraordinary novel of deep longing and comic eloquence.

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  1. ShortNFuzzy
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    Dude...where's my car?

    Charles Portis is an interesting writer. The author of the amazing True Grit (a comedy!) offers a different kind of storytelling here. The plot is paper thin. Guy loses wife and car (and shotgun) to a co-worker. Guy goes on journey from Little Rock Arkansas to Belize, Central America to find the couple ... and retrieve his car. That's it. BUT, the story isn't so much at center stage here as the journey. It gives Charles Portis the opportunity to write about weird and interesting characters. Sometimes it works...sometimes not. David Baker does great job handing the narration on this. This audio book is fun, but not deep.

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