| International Standard Book Number |
9780063438132 ebook
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780063438118 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063438119 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780063438125 (trade paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063438127 (trade paperback)
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| Personal Name |
deWitt, Patrick, 1975- author.
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| Title Statement |
Dodge City : a novel / Patrick deWitt.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
248 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The draft notice -- Cal -- The event of violence -- Draft officer Dewey -- The running-away-from-America party -- Melting music parade -- The Mendocino hotel -- Conrete -- The siege of the Cascades and Rocky Mountains -- Billings -- The antipathy between Lee and Harry -- Crisis narratives -- Plummeting moments of terror and abhorrence -- Interesting things -- A bird or an arrow.
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| Summary, Etc. |
It's 1967 in Los Angeles and Lee Clarke has received his draft notice, calling him up to fight in the Vietnam War. A straitlaced college student from Concrete, Washington, Lee is studying at UCLA until a first fight 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. He signs up at a car delivery service, chancing into a showroom-new Jaguar bound for the East Coast. Bringing only one suitcase and a bag of amphetamines, he makes his stimulated progress across the country, pining for the life he's lost and wondering about an uncertain future. Along the way he says goodbye to his father, mother, brother, and sister -- a complex quartet, each a puzzle for Lee to solve. He navigates these tangled connections while examining his increasingly fraught relationship with the United States of America.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Farewells Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Draft resisters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Draft United States Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States History 1961-1969 Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Road fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Military fiction.
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