The Dog of the South

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comic novel novel

The Dog of the South is a comic novel by Charles Portis that follows a hapless narrator on a meandering road trip from Arkansas to Central America in pursuit of his runaway wife and car.

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Label	Occurrences
The Dog of the South canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	comic novel ⓘ novel ⓘ
author	Charles Portis NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
followedByInAuthorOeuvre	Masters of Atlantis NERFINISHED ⓘ
followsInAuthorOeuvre	Norwood NERFINISHED ⓘ True Grit NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	comic novel ⓘ picaresque novel ⓘ
hasCharacter	Dr. Reo Symes NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Dupree NERFINISHED ⓘ Norma Midge NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasISBN	9780394506520 ⓘ
hasMotif	displacement ⓘ journey ⓘ pursuit ⓘ
hasNarrator	Ray Midge NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasTitleOrigin	Named after a bus line called the Dog of the South in the story ⓘ
hasWorkType	standalone novel ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryForm	prose ⓘ
literaryMovement	postmodern American fiction ⓘ
literaryStyle	deadpan humor ⓘ understated comedy ⓘ
mainCharacter	Ray Midge NERFINISHED ⓘ
mediaType	print ⓘ
narrativePerspective	first-person narration ⓘ
narrativeStructure	road trip ⓘ
notableFor	idiosyncratic dialogue ⓘ offbeat characters ⓘ
partOf	Charles Portis bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ
plotSummary	A man pursues his runaway wife and his stolen car on a meandering road trip from Arkansas to Central America. ⓘ
protagonistRole	hapless narrator ⓘ
publicationYear	1979 ⓘ
publisher	Alfred A. Knopf ⓘ
setting	Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ Central America NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ
targetAudience	adult readers ⓘ
theme	American road culture ⓘ comic misadventure ⓘ failure ⓘ obsession ⓘ
timePeriodOfSetting	20th century ⓘ

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