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Title details for The Last Taxi Driver by Lee Durkee - Available

The Last Taxi Driver

by Lee Durkee
Patrick Lawlor
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This darkly comedic novel centers around a day in the life of an exhausted middle-aged hackie who's about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. Lou—a lapsed novelist and UFO enthusiast who has returned to his home state of Mississippi after decades away—drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a college town among the trailer parks and housing projects. With Lou's way of life fast vanishing, an ex-dispatcher returns to town on the lam, triggering a bedlam shift that will test Lou's sanity and perhaps cost him his life. Against this backdrop, Lou has to keep driving and driving—even if that means aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his Town Car. Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver careens through the highways and backroads of North Mississippi as Lou becomes increasingly somnambulant and his fares increasingly eccentric.

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  • Release date

    January 7, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666565843
      • File size: 204783 KB
      • Duration: 07:06:37

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      If you didn't know better, you'd be forgiven for thinking this audiobook is a memoir, not a novel. Patrick Lawlor narrates Durkee's dark, funny, and, at times, disturbing novel in a way that makes the listener believe that the narrator and author are one and the same. The story of a former college professor, now a cab driver in Mississippi, is riveting in its depiction of life among the downtrodden, the forgotten, and the desperate. Add in a criminal element, and you have a listen that seems all too real. Lawlor delivers a pitch-perfect narration--so much so that you may believe you're in the back seat of a cab as you listen. J.P.S. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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