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The Last Taxi Driver

✍ Scribed by Lee Durkee

Book ID: 100609616
Publisher: Tin House Books
Year: 2020
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 147 KB
Category: Fiction
City: Tin House Books, 2020
ISBN: 1947793489

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✦ Synopsis

****"A wild, funny, poetic fever-dream that will change the way you think about America." --George Saunders ** **

Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver is equal parts Bukowski and Portis, and an homage to a dying American industry.

The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged hackie 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 returns to 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...

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