THE LAST TAXI DRIVER [Signed]

Durkee, Lee

ISBN 10: 194779339X / ISBN 13: 9781947793392

Published by Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon, 2020

About this Item

Octavo, 229 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is yellow with black and red lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering and has mild shelving wear along spine head. Boards have mild shelving wear along spine tail and moderate shelving wear along spine head and head joints. Signed flat by Lee Durkee on title page. Shelved in hallway. 1387977. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1387977

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LAST TAXI DRIVER [Signed]
• Publisher: Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194779339X
• ISBN 13: 9781947793392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First US Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

A Kirkus Best Book of 2020

“A wild, funny, poetic fever dream that will change the way you think about America.” ―George Saunders

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.

About the Author

Lee Durkee is the author of the novel Rides of the Midway. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Sun, Best of the Oxford American, Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, New England Review, and Mississippi Noir. In 2021, his memoir Stalking Shakespeare will chronicle his decade-long obsession with trying to find lost portraits of William Shakespeare. A former cab driver, he lives in north Mississippi.