16 days ago · United States
Dodge City by Patrick deWitt review – a wild draft-dodging road trip
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This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice Patrick deWitt broke through with a western, 2011’s Booker-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers. Now, he has taken on another hallowed American genre: the road novel.
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Dodge City by Patrick deWitt review – a wild draft-dodging road trip
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