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From Charles Portis, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of True Grit, The Dog of the South is a novel about a husband on a crazy road trip pursuing his runaway wife.
Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray’s cards, shotgun, and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they’ve gone.
He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple’s spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr. Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten-up and broken-down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The farther they drive, in a car held together by coat hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they’re not going to give up easily.
“[Charles Portis] understood, and conveyed, the grain of America, in ways that may prove valuable in future to historians trying to understand what was decent about us as a nation.”—Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review
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An American literary treasure, Charles Portis penned the Western classic True Grit. Set in the 1960s, Norwood is a picaresque romp taking audiences on a journey from Texas to New York and back again. An ex-marine, troubadour Norwood Pratt is on a mission to recover money he once loaned to a buddy in the service. Along the way, he gets into all manner of trouble involving stolen cars, beautiful women, and a chicken with a college education.
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Oddball Odyssey
- De Rick en 03-30-17
De: Charles Portis
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Masters of Atlantis
- De: Charles Portis
- Narrado por: Jefferson Mays
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book crammed with Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, and extended alchemical metaphors. It's the Codex Pappus—the sacred Gnomon text. Soon he is basking in the lore of lost Atlantis, convinced that his mission on earth is to administer to and extend the ranks of the noble brotherhood.
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What if “The Illuminatius Trilogy” was boring?
- De Francis en 04-26-24
De: Charles Portis
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Gringos
- De: Charles Portis
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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For a time, Jimmy spent his expat days in Mexico unearthing pre-Columbian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing-person situation. But Jimmy’s laid-back lifestyle is being seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker named Louise. Add to this a sudden wave of hippies led by a murderous ex-con guru in search of psychic happenings, archaeologists unearthing (illegally) the Mayan tombs, and Louise and her weirdo husband’s quest for UFO sites, and Jimmy’s south-of-the-border existence is in danger.
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Another Brilliant Portis
- De Lolly en 08-14-24
De: Charles Portis
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Escape Velocity
- A Charles Portis Miscellany
- De: Charles Portis, Jay Jennings - editor
- Narrado por: Susan Bennett, T. Ryder Smith
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Best known for his glorious comic novels, Charles Portis was also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Now, for the first time, these writings—journalism, short fiction, memoir, travel stories, and even a play—have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany. The collection encompasses the breadth of Portis’s fifty-year writing career, covering topics as varied as road tripping in Baja, Elvis’s visits to his aging mother, and his own boyhood in Arkansas.
De: Charles Portis, y otros
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True Grit
- De: Charles Portis
- Narrado por: Donna Tartt
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Mattie Ross, a 14-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie, as vital as she is innocent, outdickers and outmaneuvers the hard-bitten men of the trail in a legend that will last through the ages.
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So worth it!
- De Tommygaus en 12-29-10
De: Charles Portis
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
- 25th-Anniversary Edition
- De: Melissa Bank, Nick Hornby
- Narrado por: Melissa Bank, John Lee, Helen Laser
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. Soon Jane is swept off her feet by an older man and into a Fitzgeraldesque whirl of cocktail parties, country houses, and rules that were made to be broken, but comes to realize that it’s a world where the stakes are much too high for comfort.
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Iggy Peck, Architect
- De: Andrea Beaty
- Narrado por: Andrea Beaty
- Duración: 18 m
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Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, even though they're sometimes surprised by his materials - who could forget the tower he built out of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. He loves building too much to give it up! Andrea Beaty's irresistible rhyming will charm creative kids everywhere and will amuse their sometimes bewildered parents.
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A Study in Scarlet Women
- The Lady Sherlock Series, Book 1
- De: Sherry Thomas
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 11 h y 1 m
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With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a trio of unexpected deaths and suspicion falls on her sister and her father, Charlotte is desperate to find the true culprits and clear the family name. She’ll have help from friends new and old—a kind-hearted widow, a police inspector, and a man who has long loved her.
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Creative and fun
- De San Rafael, CA en 04-13-24
De: Sherry Thomas
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The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore
- De: Benjamin Hale
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
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Bruno Littlemore is quite unlike any chimpanzee in the world. Precocious, self-conscious and preternaturally gifted, young Bruno, born and raised in a habitat at the local zoo, falls under the care of a university primatologist named Lydia Littlemore. Learning of Bruno's ability to speak, Lydia takes Bruno into her home to oversee his education and nurture his passion for painting. But for all of his gifts, the chimpanzee has a rough time caging his more primal urges.
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Prepare To Be Dazzled!
- De Casey Keller en 03-08-11
De: Benjamin Hale
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The Loved One
- De: Evelyn Waugh
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
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Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park. Within its golden gates, death, American-style, is wrapped up and sold like a package holiday - and Dennis gets drawn into a bizarre love triangle with Aimée Thanatogenos, a naïve Californian corpse beautician, and Mr. Joyboy, a master of the embalmer's art.
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Satire? Or just mean spirited?
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 02-08-23
De: Evelyn Waugh
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I Cheerfully Refuse
- De: Leif Enger
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker
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Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society.
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Story grows jarringly dark and aimless
- De Joel en 04-15-24
De: Leif Enger
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Barkskins
- A Novel
- De: Annie Proulx
- Narrado por: Robert Petkoff
- Duración: 25 h y 53 m
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In the late 17th century, two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters — barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Annie Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over 300 years.
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Awe-Inspiring, Far-Reaching Epic
- De W Perry Hall en 06-30-16
De: Annie Proulx
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Little Big Man
- De: Thomas Berger, Larry McMurtry - introduction
- Narrado por: David Aaron Baker, Scott Sowers, Henry Strozier
- Duración: 20 h y 31 m
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Audie Award, Literary Fiction, 2016. The story of Jack Crabbe, raised by both a white man and a Cheyenne chief. As a Cheyenne, Jack ate dog, had four wives, and saw his people butchered by General Custer's soldiers. As a white man, he participated in the slaughter of the buffalo and tangled with Wyatt Earp.
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It's a Good Day to Listen
- De Dubi en 05-21-15
De: Thomas Berger, y otros
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The Underground Railroad (Television Tie-in)
- A Novel
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 10 h y 43 m
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Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.
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Stupendous book, hard to follow in audio
- De JQR en 12-01-16
De: Colson Whitehead
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Underground Railroad
- De: Colson Whitehead
- Narrado por: Aïssa Maïga
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Cora, seize ans, est esclave sur une plantation de coton dans la Géorgie d'avant la guerre de Sécession. Abandonnée par sa mère lorsqu'elle était enfant, elle survit tant bien que mal à la violence de sa condition. Lorsque Caesar, un esclave récemment arrivé de Virginie, lui propose de s'enfuir, elle accepte et tente, au péril de sa vie, de gagner avec lui les États libres du Nord. De la Caroline du Sud à l'Indiana en passant par le Tennessee, Cora va vivre une incroyable odyssée.
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Wrong language
- De David Osler en 07-25-22
De: Colson Whitehead
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Ceremony
- De: Leslie Marmon Silko
- Narrado por: Pete Bradbury
- Duración: 9 h y 6 m
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Leslie Marmon Silko's sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who he is.
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Worth a re-read
- De Mariah en 02-02-09
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Housekeeping (40th Anniversary Edition)
- A Novel (Picador Modern Classics)
- De: Marilynne Robinson
- Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead mother. The family house is in the small town of Fingerbone on a glacial lake in the Far West, the same lake where their grandfather died in a spectacular train wreck and their mother drove off a cliff to her death.
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A small and perfect novel
- De martin hall en 03-06-21
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The Crying of Lot 49
- De: Thomas Pynchon
- Narrado por: George Wilson
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. When Oedipa heads off to Southern California to sort through Pierce's affairs, she becomes ensnared in a hilarious and puzzling worldwide conspiracy.
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Good book, Average recording
- De James en 08-12-07
De: Thomas Pynchon
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Dog of the South
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- Tb
- 12-18-21
funny but a little meandering down the stretch
If you're only gonna read one Charles Porter's book read true grit. I did think this one was funnier than a Confederacy of dunces. There are a lot of racial slurs so be on the lookout for that
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- AuntiePen
- 08-05-20
A true gem
I laughed aloud at this quirky tale and the characterizations resonated with my knowledge of the American Southwest. David Baker beautifully captured the drawling language, even to my native Texan ear
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- Richard G. Reinis
- 04-07-16
A Perfect Match of Reader and Writer
What did you love best about The Dog of the South?
David Aaron Baker deserves an Oscar (whatever the appropriate equivalent might be) for his performance. He demonstrates a complete grasp of the written work and an impeccable sense of timing and delivery as he brings the characters of this charming work alive. Charles Portis must listen to this and marvel at how Raymond and Dr. Symes and the British Hondurans come alive in his novel. Confederacy of Dunces is the only equivalent I have encountered.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Dog of the South?
The interaction of Raymond and the cast of characters he encounters is wonderful. But any reader will recognize that Portis' ear for dialogue is uncanny. A reader who can make those encounters echo two adversaries, without the benefit of a writer's use of the printed page to identify speakers, is one of a kind. Baker is in rare form.
Have you listened to any of David Aaron Baker’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Not sure.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Laugh. Wonder. Learn.
Any additional comments?
One of a kind.
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- ChiKaz
- 05-12-17
An enjoyable book, excellently narrated
A wacky, off-beat, and humorous book. I like the way that the author exaggerates the idiosyncrasies of every character, so that no-one is quite normal but at the same time perfectly believable. A good narrator can really bring a book to life and the narration of this book was superb. The voice he was able to create for each character so perfectly matched that character and he moved effortlessly from one to another in dialogue. I particularly liked the voice he created for the Doctor - masterful! I will definitely be looking to listen to more books narrated by Mr. Baker.
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- Blu
- 09-15-20
Loved it
Really loved this story. Simple, a little sad, funny. Narrator was fantastic. Highly recommend! On to True Grit next.
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- Jaded Buddha
- 06-26-24
Hilarious and deeply entertaining journey novel
First off, this is a perfect novel. Some of the funniest character writing ever written lies herein.
Second, the actor reading this is AMAZING. Easily one of the best audiobooks I’ve ever heard. I’ve listened to it a few times already and can’t wait to listen again.
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- Heartbern
- 08-01-24
Another gem from Portis
Some of the language is true to the time period but a little shocking now. Not sure why it is named that when the “dog” played such a mall role in the story. A man travels from Little Rock to Belize chasing his wife and her ex with the express purpose of getting his car back, only to find maybe that’s not what he wanted all along.
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- Gary
- 07-11-18
A highlight of my long life of reading
This is one of the most enjoyable books I have read/heard in 50 years of reading. With his startling and hilarious combination of sagacity and cluelessness, the narrator/main character Ray Midge puts me in mind of A Confederacy of Dunces (absent the gravitas). I was smiling all the way through, except when I was laughing out loud.
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- Thomas
- 04-09-15
Long end good start.
The end dragged on and on...which is saying something for such a short book. Not a bad listen though.
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- John O
- 07-13-20
The Odyssey of an Everyman
Poignant and funny tale of a seemingly ordinary and somewhat misbegotten soul who pursues a former coworker who has absconded with his wife, car, and credit card. Naturally, there's more to it, with deep insights into the nature and nurture of the human psyche. Twainesque humor and an all around most enjoyable story. Didn't want it to end.
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