As a novelist with a brilliantly singular vision of America,
Charles Portis has invited comparisons to Pynchon and DeLillo. This
reissue of The Dog of the South, to be followed by Masters of
Atlantis, Norwood, and Gringos, is the perfect Portis initiation
for new readers and a welcome reunion for longtime fans.
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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