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The dog of the South

Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily.

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  • "Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily."@en
  • "Ray Midge tracks down his wife Norma, who has run off with her first husband, by following credit card receipts. The trail leads from Arkansas, to Mexico, and into Honduras."
  • "Ray Midge tracks down his wife Norma, who has run off with her first husband, by following credit card receipts. The trail leads from Arkansas, to Mexico, and into Honduras."@en
  • ""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."@en
  • "The Dog of the South is the story of Ray Midge tracking down his wife, Norma -- who has run off with her first husband -- by following credit card receipts (His credit card ). Midge starts out in Norma's lover's compact car, which has 74,000 miles on it and a quarter-turn slack in the steering wheel (They took his Ford Torino ). The trail leads from Arkansas, down to Mexico, and into Honduras, where Midge stops to help, and of course gets entangled with, Dr. Reo Symes in his broken down bus. "The Dog of the South". Symes is a pure Portis character -- a crazily optimistic, broken-down dreamer obsessed with secret knowledge in the form of John Selmer Dix, the elusive writer of inspirational books for salesmen. As Midge chases Norma and Symes tries to sort the true from the false Dix sightings, Portis spins an extraordinary novel that addresses with comic eloquence the deep longing of the American psyche for things just to make some sense."

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  • "Road fiction"@en
  • "Road fiction"
  • "Humorous stories"@en
  • "Humorous stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Humorous fiction"
  • "Humorous fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Picaresque literature"
  • "Picaresque literature"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "The dog of the South"
  • "The dog of the South"@en
  • "Un chien dans le moteur"
  • "The dog of the south"
  • "The dog of the south"@en

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