The Last Taxi Driver

The Last Taxi Driver
Lee Durkee
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
27 May 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780857304575
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Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a middle-aged hackie' s daylong descent into madness, heartbreak, and murder. Lou--a lapsed novelist and UFO aficionado--drives 70-hour weeks for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi college town among the trailer parks and housing projects. With Uber moving into town and his way of life fast vanishing, his girlfriend moving out on him, and his archenemy-dispatcher suddenly returning to the state on the lam, Lou must keep driving his way through a bedlam shift even when that means aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his Town Car. Shedding nuts and bolts at every turn, The Last Taxi Driver careens through the highways and back roads, from Mississippi to Memphis and back, as Lou becomes increasingly somnambulant and his fares increasingly eccentric. Equal parts Bukowski and Portis, Durkee' s novel is an homage to a dying American industry.
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. --Chris Offutt, author of Country Dark
Tin House, New England Review, and Mississippi Noir. In 2021 Scribner will publish his memoir Stalking Shakespeare, which chronicles his decade-long obsession with trying to find lost portraits of William Shakespeare. A former cab driver, he lives in North Mississippi. The Last Taxi Driver is his first novel in twenty years.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780857304575
Published: 27 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: No Exit Press
Publisher: Oldcastle Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 256

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