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The Last Taxi Driver
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The Last Taxi Driver
A darkly comic crime novel following Lou, an exhausted cabbie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms.
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The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged cabbie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. Lou—a lapsed novelist and UFO enthusiast who has returned to his home state of Mississippi after decades away—drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a college town among the trailer parks and housing projects. With Lou's way of life fast vanishing, an ex-dispatcher resurfaces in town on the lam, triggering a bedlam shift which will test Lou's sanity and perhaps cost him his life.
Against this backdrop, Lou has to keep driving, and driving—even if that means aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his Town Car.
Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver careens through the highways and backroads of North Mississippi 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.
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Lee Durkee's The Last Taxi Driver offers a modern-day Canterbury Tales with a narrative that's both chaotic and gripping. The novel is noted for its blend of humour and underlying tragedy, drawing comparisons to Shakespearean storytelling. Critics appreciate its Southern Gothic allure and the surreal journey it provides, following a protagonist navigating the eccentric landscapes and flawed characters of northern Mississippi.
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ISBN: 9780857304575
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 May 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: No Exit Press
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Lee Durkee is the author of the novel Rides of the Midway (W. W. Norton). 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 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.
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