The Last Taxi Driver

The Last Taxi Driver is a Canterbury Tales for our time... Decentralized, atomized, and alternately tranquilized and jacked up on cheap beer and meth, this is the world of Beckett, Godard, Robbe-Grillet * Full Stop * Much of what makes Lee Durkee's novel so delightful and surprising is his ability to dig beneath the surface of this funny, well-told odyssey, which channels a Shakespearean tragedy. This twenty-year follow up to his debut novel, Rides of the Midway, was worth the wait -- Sara Webster * Chicago Review of Books * An enthralling Southern Gothic * Irish Times * A wild, sometimes surreal ride to oblivion in the company of Lou, a one-time novelist and writing teacher now driving a collection of drug addicts, alcoholics, psychotics and other misfits to various destinations in north Mississippi * Book Brunch * A picaresque sweep through the dark side of the American dream and full of gems and memorable observations -- Maxim Jakubowski * Crime Time *