The Dog of the South

Ray Midge’s wife has run off with his car, his money and her ex-husband. When the credit card bills start arriving, Ray sets off after them in the ex-husband’s old clunker, on a search that takes him across the southern United States and into Mexico, where he meets a cast of eccentric characters. Charles Portis’s 1979 comic novel keeps its hero’s sense of humor intact all the way.