{"product_id":"9780008781347","title":"Dodge City","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): deWitt, Patrick \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 29\/09\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 272 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008781347,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I adored every page’ MAX PORTER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘A perfect novel’ JONATHAN LETHEM\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e ‘Electric, funny, and brilliantly written’ JOHN PATRICK MCHUGH\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers comes Dodge City, a thrilling novel about a young man on an amphetamine fuelled cross-country road trip fleeing the Vietnam draft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1967, California. Lee Clarke is a strait-laced twenty-three-year-old, happily in love and ambling along at college until an ill-advised fistfight leads to his expulsion. Soon, he receives his draft notice to serve in the Vietnam War, which forces Lee to make the first political decision of his life: he will leave the country and his girlfriend and head for the Canadian border.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e He signs up at a drive-away car delivery service, chancing into a new Jaguar bound for the East Coast. Carrying only a single suitcase and a bag of amphetamines, Lee knows he can’t go without saying his goodbyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In four different towns strung out along the US, Lee visits each member of his family: his father, an alcoholic World War Two veteran; his mother, engaged in a buoyantly manic performance with her shut-in sibling; his heartbroken, misanthropic brother Harry; and finally his twin sister, Grace, a brash, young psychiatric nurse-in-training mired in romantic drama. As Lee makes his stimulated progress across the country, his past keeps rising to meet him. He can’t help but wonder, what will his decision to leave mean for his future?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A beautiful, sweeping and raucous portrait of a family in disarray and a country in flux, Dodge City confirms deWitt as one of our most brilliant satirists and a novelist of staggering heart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57365349368181,"sku":"9780008781347","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780008781347.jpg?v=1784363010","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780008781347","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}