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02189aam a2200349 i 4500 001 7056B54474A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 190719t20202020oru 000 1 eng 010 $a 2019031489 020 $a 194779339X 020 $a 9781947793392 035 $a (OCoLC)1104417574 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d T7B $d IH9 $d LMJ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-ms 050 00 $a PS3554 U6865 L37 2020 100 1 $a Durkee, Lee $e author. 245 14 $a The last taxi driver / $c Lee Durkee. 250 $a First US edition. 264 1 $a Portland, Oregon : $b Tin House Books, $c 2020. 300 $a 229 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Middle-aged men $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Taxicab drivers $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Mississippi $v Fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015246.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806022905.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200502010144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7056B54474A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search