The Dog of the South
by Charles Portis
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"Ray Midge's wife, Norma, has run away with her creep of a first husband. She also ran away with Midge's credit cards and his Ford Torino ... But Midge can track the lovebirds' escape once the credit card receipts start rolling in, and he sets off after them to get his car back. The route: from Arkansas through Texas through Mexico to a remote, bedraggled plantation in Honduras. Along the way, Midge meets Dr. Reo Symes, a down-on-his-luck old Texas M.D. with some hapless dreams and a broken-down bus called 'The dog of the South'. The further south the journey takes them, the wilder their days get."--Publisher description.
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Fiction, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Married people, Automobile travel, Runaway wives, Humorous stories, Central america, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, United states, fiction, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, humorous, general, Married people, fictionPlaces
Arkansas, Texas, Mexico, East, Gulf States, Latin America, North America, South, Southeast, Southwest, United States, WestTimes
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The dog of the South
1979, Knopf : distributed by Random House
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0394506146 9780394506142
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Standard print ed. originally published: New York : Knopf, 1979 ; London : Bloomsbury, 2005.
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Ray Midge is befuddled when his wife takes off with his car, his money, and her ex-husband. When credit card statements start rolling in, he takes off to find them (in the ex-husband's clunker). His search takes him across the southern United States and into Mexico, where he meets a cast of eccentric characters. Through it all, Ray maintains a sense of humor without a sense of revenge--he justs wants what is rightfully his.
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