DODGE CITY HB

I adored every page MAX PORTER A perfect novel JONATHAN LETHEM Electric funny and brilliantly written JOHN PATRICK MCHUGHFrom 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 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 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 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 s