Dodge City: A Novel by Patrick deWitt · Audiobook preview

PURCHASE ON GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEAaRiUGLM Dodge City: A Novel Authored by Patrick deWitt Narrated by Micky Shiloah 0:00 Intro 0:03 Dodge City: A Novel 0:32 THE DRAFT NOTICE 8:16 CAL 15:32 Outro #patrickdewitt #dodgecityanovel — GOOGLE PLAY BOOKS Find your next great read with Google Play Books. Google Play Books is a global digital bookstore offering ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Discover book recommendations personalized just for you. Get the iOS app: https://goo.gle/books-ios Get the Android app: https://goo.gle/books-android — BOOK DESCRIPTION From bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine–fueled cross–country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE Named a Most Anticipated title by: People.com, Minnesota Star Tribune, Seattle Times, ALTA Journal, Orange County Register, AARP, LitHub, and The Spokesman Review It’s 1967 in Los Angeles and Lee Clarke has received his draft notice, calling him up to fight in the Vietnam War. A straitlaced, apolitical twenty–three–year–old from Concrete, Washington, Lee is studying at UCLA until a fistfight leads to his expulsion—and his removal from the deferment list. The draft notice forces him to make the first political decision of his life, and though he’s happy in California and loves his girlfriend, he will leave the country and head for the border. He signs up at a drive–away car–delivery service, chancing into a showroom–new Jaguar bound for the East Coast. Bringing only a single suitcase and a bag of amphetamines, he makes his stimulated progress against the width of the country, pining for the life he’s left behind and wondering what his decision will mean for his future. But he is not just saying goodbye to the country of his birth. In four different towns strung out along the northern United States, Lee visits each member of his immediate family: his father, a World War II veteran in a state of degradation; his mother, engaged in a buoyantly manic and never–ending performance with her shut–in sibling; his heartbroken, misanthropic brother, Harry; and finally his twin sister, Grace, a brash, young nurse–in–training mired in romantic drama at a Manhattan psychiatric hospital. An arresting portrait of a country in flux and a family in disarray, Dodge City represents a signal achievement in an already illustrious body of work by the “twenty–first–century Mark Twain” (Slate). Witty, moving, and delightfully off–kilter, Patrick deWitt’s sixth novel is a brilliant and raucous exploration of family, country, division, and war, from an elegant humorist who never shies from the stranger aspects of human behavior. — ABOUT THE AUTHOR Patrick deWitt is the author of The Librarianist and French Exit (both national bestsellers); The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short–listed for the Booker Prize); and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, Canada, he now resides in Portland, Oregon. — AUDIOBOOK DETAILS Purchase on Google Play Books ►► https://g.co/booksYT/AQAAAEAaRiUGLM Language: English Publisher: Ecco Published on: September 29, 2026 ISBN: 9780063438156 Duration: 5 hr, 41 min Genres: Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Historical / 20th Century / General, Fiction / War & Military