Lee Durkee Signs "The Last Taxi Driver"

 

Enjoy a glass of wine and meet fellow Mississippian Lee Durkee upon the release of his latest novel, The Last Taxi Driver. Lee will be with us to sign and speak on Wednesday, March 4th from 5:30 - 6:30 PM. 

Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a middle-aged hackie’s daylong descent into madness, heartbreak, and murder. Lou—a lapsed novelist and UFO aficionado—drives 70-hour weeks for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi college town among the trailer parks and housing projects. With Uber moving into town and his way of life fast vanishing, his girlfriend moving out on him, and his archenemy-dispatcher suddenly returning to the state on the lam, Lou must keep driving his way through a bedlam shift even when that means aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his Town Car. Shedding nuts and bolts at every turn, The Last Taxi Driver careens through the highways and back roads, from Mississippi to Memphis and back, 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.

 Lee Durkee is the author of the novel Rides of the Midway. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Sun, Best of the Oxford American, Zoetrope: All-Story, Tin House, New England Review, and Mississippi Noir. In 2021, his memoir Stalking Shakespeare will chronicle his decade-long obsession with trying to find lost portraits of William Shakespeare. A former cab driver, he lives in north Mississippi. 

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Event date: 
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Event address: 
300 East Scenic Drive
Pass Christian, MS 39571
The Last Taxi Driver By Lee Durkee Cover Image
$25.95
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ISBN: 9781947793392
Published: Tin House Books - March 3rd, 2020