Dodge City
First published 2026
Reception
- 2026
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Read the 4 reviews
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Stuck in the Slow Lane
By Joseph Williams
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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
By Keshava Guha
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‘Dodge City,’ by Patrick deWitt
“Dodge City,” by Patrick deWitt, follows a young man on a road trip to Canada to avoid conscription in Vietnam.
By Andrew Martin
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Dodge City — Patrick deWitt’s wild, witty road trip across 1960s America
An amphetamine-fuelled, draft-dodging journey becomes a portrait of both a family and a nation in crisis
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Catalogue record
HarperCollins Publishers, 2026
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, 2026
- ISBN
- 978-0-06-343811-8
Full recordClose
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, 2026
- ISBNs
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- 978-0-06-343811-8
- 978-0-06-343814-9
- Editions
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- HarperCollins Publishers, 2026
- HarperCollins Publishers, 2026, 464 pages
- Author
- deWitt, Patrick, 1975–
- Statement
- Dodge City / Patrick deWitt.
- Records
- Open Library
- Canada
- 2020s
- Historical fiction
- Satire and humour
- War