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Also by Charles Portis:

Escape Velocity, October 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
True Grit, November 2010
Trade Size (reprint)
The Dog Of The South, June 2007
Paperback (reprint)
Gringos, May 2000
Paperback (reprint)
Norwood, August 1999
Paperback (reprint)

THE DOG OF THE SOUTH
By: Charles Portis

Overlook Press
June 2007
On Sale: June 5, 2007
Featuring: Ray Midge
272 pages
ISBN: 1585679313
EAN: 9781585679317
Paperback (reprint)
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A comic novel that tells the story of Ray Midge of Little Rock, whose wife has run away with her first husband, Ray's credit cards, and his car. Ray sets off to get his own back (especially his car). Along the way, he encounters an array of Portis' unique characters: inner-directed and undeflected innocents, with Ray the most calmly determined of them all.

As readers of Portis' earlier novels Norwood and True Grit know, obstacle are like catnip to a Portis hero. Ray—stoic, unheroic, a bit disenchanted—tends to make himself responsible for the welfare of anyone (or anything) who happens to get in his way.