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Synopsis
On a hot August day at Vancouver airport, a distraught young man wanders into the Odyssey car rental agency, carrying a backpack full of beer and boxer shorts. Trevor Kelvin is in the midst of a serious crisis – at least in his own mind. His all-too-comfortable existence as a wannabe filmmaker has been disrupted by a single phone call from his Czech girlfriend.
In an attempt to get over her, and get his mojo back, Trevor rents a Dodge Neon and blazes down Highway 99, heading for California, equipped only with a semi-automatic pistol and his trusty plastic visor, and with a flea-ridden cat as his companion. As the drugs and the heartbreak kick in, his journey is increasingly fraught with peril, until the question is no longer whether Trevor will get over his girlfriend's infidelity but whether he'll get out alive.
An odyssey of Homeric proportions, told with a searing clarity reminiscent of Willy Vlautin or Patrick de Witt, The Drive has all the adventure and surrealism of Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but overlaid with heartfelt yearning and hope.
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About the Author
Tyler Keevil is the author of Fireball, which won the Media Wales People’s Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker prize. His short fiction has appeared in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, and his short story collection, Burrard Inlet, was published in May 2014. His short story "Sealskin" won Canada's prestigious Journey Prize in 2014.
Review
'A road novel like no other I've read. Trevor's journey into the American north-west and his own wounded ego is magical, hilarious, dark and crazy.' - Matthew Francis 'Perfectly paced and often hilarious...Trevor is one of the most convincingly confused and yet undeniably honest narrators I have ever read...Keevil's prose is blisteringly honest and, despite the novels length, spare. This is an epic journey by anyone's standards but the short chapters, snappy dialogue and pure and simple crazy situations keep you firmly gripped to the back seat.' - We Love This Book 'Equal parts Hunter S. Thompson and Homer, the book alternates between Trevor's insane picaresque Odyssey and flashbacks to the birth and growth of the passionate love he's so desperate to forget...his journey into the American West is hilarious, his journey into himself revelatory, and you'll be glad to have gone along with him for the ride.' - Waterstones 'Trevor's journey, as with book itself, is best relished by simply settling back and enjoying the ride.' - Litro
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- PublisherMyriad Editions
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1908434317
- ISBN 13 9781908434319
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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