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SUMMARY:Pop-up: Patrick deWitt
DESCRIPTION:Patrick deWitt reads from his new novel Dodge City at Portland Art Musem in the Northwest Art gallery (Level 4\, Room 402)\, paired with Paul Horiuchi\, Memories. \nAbout Dodge City:\nLONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE \nNamed a Most Anticipated title by: People.com\, Minnesota Star Tribune\, Seattle Times\, ALTA Journal\, Orange County Register\, AARP\, LitHub\, and The Spokesman Review \nFrom bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City\, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip\, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. \nIt’s 1967 in Los Angeles and Lee Clarke has received his draft notice\, calling him up to fight in the Vietnam War. A straitlaced\, apolitical twenty-three-year-old from Concrete\, Washington\, Lee is studying at UCLA until a fistfight leads to his expulsion—and his removal from the deferment list. The draft notice forces him to make the first political decision of his life\, and though he’s happy in California and loves his girlfriend\, he will leave the country and head for the border. \nHe signs up at a drive-away car-delivery service\, chancing into a showroom-new Jaguar bound for the East Coast. Bringing only a single suitcase and a bag of amphetamines\, he makes his stimulated progress against the width of the country\, pining for the life he’s left behind and wondering what his decision will mean for his future. \nBut he is not just saying goodbye to the country of his birth. In four different towns strung out along the northern United States\, Lee visits each member of his immediate family: his father\, a World War II veteran in a state of degradation; his mother\, engaged in a buoyantly manic and never-ending performance with her shut-in sibling; his heartbroken\, misanthropic brother\, Harry; and finally his twin sister\, Grace\, a brash\, young nurse-in-training mired in romantic drama at a Manhattan psychiatric hospital. \nAn arresting portrait of a country in flux and a family in disarray\, Dodge City represents a signal achievement in an already illustrious body of work by the “twenty-first-century Mark Twain” (Slate). Witty\, moving\, and delightfully off-kilter\, Patrick deWitt’s sixth novel is a brilliant and raucous exploration of family\, country\, division\, and war\, from an elegant humorist who never shies from the stranger aspects of human behavior.
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/pop-up-patrick-dewitt/
LOCATION:Portland Art Museum: Main Building\, 1219 SW Park Ave\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:Fiction Events,Pop-up Events
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