March 3, 2011

In 1979, noted author Charles Portis published his third novel, The Dog of the South. Following his very successful western, True Grit, the new work was a comic novel telling the story of a young Arkansas man tracking his runaway wife and her lover to Belize in an attempt to recover stolen items and perhaps even the wife. The title is derived from one of the book’s characters who drives a bus with “Dog of the South” painted on the side.