The last taxi driver / Lee Durkee.
"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 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781947793392
- ISBN: 194779339X
- Physical Description: 229 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: First United States edition
- Publisher: Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Subject: | Middle-aged men > Fiction. Taxicab drivers > Fiction. Mississippi > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Humorous fiction. Novels. |
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- 14 of 14 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
- 3 of 3 copies available at Carteret County Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Beaufort Main | F DURKE (Text) | 34208900002048 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Bogue Banks | F DURKE (Text) | 34208900002055 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Western Carteret | F DURKE (Text) | 34208900002063 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
