Search
Log in
  • Home

  • Categories

  • Audiobooks

  • E-books

  • For kids

  • Top lists

  • Help

  • Download app

  • Use campaign code

  • Redeem gift card

  • Try free now
  • Log in
  • Language

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN

Read and listen for free for 14 days!

Cancel anytime

Try free now
0.0(0)

The Last Taxi Driver

The Last Taxi Driver is a darkly comic novel about a day in the life of an exhausted, middle-aged cabbie about to lose his job to Uber, his girlfriend to lethargy, and his ability to stand upright to chronic back spasms. Lou - a lapsed novelist and UFO enthusiast who has returned to his home state of Mississippi after decades away - drives for a ramshackle taxi company that operates on the outskirts of a college town among the trailer parks and housing projects. With Lou's way of life fast vanishing, an ex-dispatcher resurfaces in town on the lam, triggering a bedlam shift which will test Lou's sanity and perhaps cost him his life.

Against this backdrop, Lou has to keep driving, and driving - even if that means aiding and abetting the host of criminal misfits haunting the back seat of his Town Car.

Written by a former cabbie, The Last Taxi Driver careens through the highways and backroads of North Mississippi as Lou becomes increasingly somnambulant and his fares increasingly eccentric. Equal parts Bukowski and Portis, Durkee's novel is an homage to a dying American industry.


Author:

  • Lee Durkee

Format:

  • E-book

Duration:

  • 151 pages

Language:

English


More by Lee Durkee

Skip the list
  1. Stalking Shakespeare : A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

    Lee Durkee

    audiobook
  2. Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search for the Poet Beneath the Paint

    Lee Durkee

    book

Others have also read

Skip the list
  1. The Skull

    Philip K. Dick

    audiobook
  2. The Trees

    Percival Everett

    audiobook
  3. Kameleontti

    Taavi Kassila, Matti Markkanen

    audiobook
  4. Lepakkomies : Harry Hole 1

    Jo Nesbø

    audiobookbook
  5. Hypnotisoija - Black Edition

    Lars Kepler

    audiobookbook
  6. Operaatio Troijalainen

    Christian Rönnbacka

    audiobookbook
  7. Pasilan mies

    J. K. Tamminen

    audiobookbook
  8. The Sniper

    Chang Kuo-Li

    audiobook
  9. Sinun puolestasi vuodatettu : Lainvartijat 1

    Niko Rantsi

    audiobookbook
  10. B. J. Harrison Reads Bartleby, the Scrivener

    Herman Melville

    audiobook
  11. War Women

    Martin Limon

    audiobook
  12. Poison at Penshaw Hall

    G B Ralph

    audiobook

  • 3 books

    Lee Durkee

    Lee Durkee is the author of The Last Taxi Driver, named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020, Rides of the Midway, and Stalking Shakespeare. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Sun, Oxford American, Zoetrope: All Story, and Mississippi Noir. He lives in northern Mississippi.

    Read more

Help and contact


About us

  • Our story
  • Career
  • Press
  • Accessibility
  • Partner with us
  • Investor relations
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Explore

  • Categories
  • Audiobooks
  • E-books
  • Magazines
  • For kids
  • Top lists

Popular categories

  • Crime
  • Biographies and reportage
  • Fiction
  • Feel-good and romance
  • Personal development
  • Children's books
  • True stories
  • Sleep and relaxation

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Privacy Policy · Terms ·
Excellent4.3 out of 5