Let the Dog Drive
Bowman, David
From Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 17, 1997
From Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller Since April 17, 1997
About this Item
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Emily Dickinson, crazed housewives, and dogs people the pages of this acclaimed first novel, sometimes described as belonging in the detective genre. Winner of the Elmer Holmes Bobst prize. Slight fading to edges of cloth; faint slant to spine; DJ a trifle darkened with faint wear. Seller Inventory # L053014
Bibliographic Details
Title: Let the Dog Drive
Publisher: NewYork University Press
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
It's 1975. Bud Salem, 18-years-old, is fleeing his mother's TV church and meets a woman pitching oranges in the Mojave. She's Sylvia Cushman, a 45-year-old housewife, who loves driving alone through the desert. They odyssey through western motels and Apache gas stations where Sylvia gives long lectures about Emily Dickinson and drags Bud up into the mesas to search for petroglyphs. After sharing adventures in Detroit, New York, and Amherst, the travelers part...
In many ways Let the Dog Drive is an askew detective novel— when a character dies under strange circumstances in Texas, Bud goes to the panhandle to uncover what happened. His strange narration does contain pleasures of the genre: a shootout inside an aquarium; a faked death; another shootout on a chicken farm in Texas...But Let the Dog Drive is also a freewheeling merging of many other genres and concerns-- Hollywood, hardboiled novels of the 1930s, Emily Dickinson's white dress, hallucinatory cacti, The Book of Luke...And dogs.
David Bowman was born in Racine, Wisconsin, but now lives in New York City. This, his first novel, was written in Montauk. He is currently writing a biography of Paul Cain (1902-1966), an enigmatic contemporary Hammett who lived and died in Hollywood.
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