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Dodge City by Patrick deWitt review – a wild draft-dodging road trip
This tale of a 60s college dropout driving across the US to avoid being sent to Vietnam is committed to both readerly pleasure and literary artifice Patrick deWitt broke through with a western, 2011’s Booker-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers . Now, he has taken on another hallowed American genre: the road novel. Recent works by Miranda July and Ben Markovits have, in very different ways, used the idea of the road…