{"product_id":"the-last-taxi-driver-9781951142681","title":"The Last Taxi Driver","description":"\u003cp\u003eHailed by George Saunders as \"a true original--a wise and wildly talented writer,\" Lee Durkee takes readers on a high-stakes cab ride through an unforgettable shift. Meet Lou--a lapsed novelist, struggling Buddhist, and UFO fan--who drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a north Mississippi college town. With Uber moving into town and his way of life vanishing, his girlfriend moving out, and his archenemy dispatcher suddenly returning to town on the lam, Lou must finish his bedlam shift by aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his disintegrating Town Car. Lou is forced to decide how much he can take as a driver, and whether keeping his job is worth madness and heartbreak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShedding nuts and bolts, \u003cem\u003eThe Last Taxi Driver\u003c\/em\u003e careens through highways and back roads, from Mississippi to Memphis, as Lou becomes increasingly somnambulant and his fares increasingly eccentric. Equal parts Bukowski and Portis, Durkee's darkly comic novel is a feverish, hilarious, and gritty look at a forgotten America and a man at life's crossroads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDurkee, Lee:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Lee Durkee is the author of the novel \u003cem\u003eRides of the Midway\u003c\/em\u003e. His stories and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBest of the Oxford American\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZoetrope: All-Story\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTin House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMississippi Noir\u003c\/em\u003e. In 2021, his memoir \u003cem\u003eStalking Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e will chronicle his decade-long obsession with trying to find lost portraits of William Shakespeare. A former cab driver, he lives in north Mississippi.","brand":"Tin House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50511217066258,"sku":"9781951142681","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b058f1fa-a07b-40f0-a754-e553bdaf48c5.jpg?v=1730944643","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-taxi-driver-9781951142681","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}