{"product_id":"dodge-city-by-patrick-dewitt-hardback","title":"Dodge City By Patrick deWitt (Hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003ePublished: \u003cstrong\u003e29\/09\/2026\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(64, 64, 64);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenres: Historical Fiction - Fiction - Historical\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pdp-waterstones-says\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the celebrated\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sisters Brothers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes an off-kilter 1960s road trip crackling with energy, wit and passion, as a US draft dodger races to the Canadian border whilst dropping in on his deeply dysfunctional family on the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" id=\"scope_book_description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDodge City\u003c\/em\u003e, a thrilling novel about a young man on an amphetamine fueled cross-country road trip fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1967, California. Lee Clarke is a strait-laced twenty-three-year-old from the small town of Concrete, Washington. He is ambling along at college as the social revolution of the sixties unfolds among his peers, until an ill-advised fistfight leads to his expulsion. Days later, a draft letter lands on his doormat, calling him up to fight in the Vietnam War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLee then makes the first political decision of his life: he will leave the country and head for the border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe kisses his girlfriend for the last time and signs up at a drive-away car delivery service and scores a Jaguar bound for the East Coast. He takes with him only a single suitcase and a bag of amphetamines to speed his course. But Lee knows he can’t slip the country without saying the rest of his goodbyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn four different towns strung out along the country, Lee visits each member of his family: his father, a World War Two veteran in a state of degradation; his mother, engaged in a buoyantly manic and never-ending performance with her shut-in sibling; his heartbroken, misanthropic brother Harry; and finally his twin sister Grace, a brash, young nurse-in-training mired in romantic drama at a Manhattan psychiatric hospital. He’s speeding towards his future, and yet the past keeps rising up to meet him. Will he make it across the border the same man as when he started this journey?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA sweeping portrait of a country in flux and a family in disarray,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDodge City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a beautiful and raucous exploration of family, belonging, love and war. Deeply moving and delightfully off-kilter, it confirms deWitt as one of our most brilliant satirists and a novelist of staggering heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"publisher-information\" class=\"pdp-spec\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePublisher information\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublisher:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"publisher\"\u003eHarperCollins Publishers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eISBN:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"isbn\"\u003e9780008781347\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNumber of pages:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"numberOfPages\"\u003e272\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDimensions:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"height\"\u003e222\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan itemprop=\"width\"\u003e141\u003c\/span\u003e x \u003cspan itemprop=\"depth\"\u003e21\u003c\/span\u003e mm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeight:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"weight\"\u003e270 g\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLanguage:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan itemprop=\"inLanguage\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Starlight Library","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":53409073168697,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"IQD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0951\/4624\/6457\/files\/71rJyelIWgL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781350630","url":"https:\/\/starlightlibrary.shop\/products\/dodge-city-by-patrick-dewitt-hardback","provider":"Starlight Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}