Thu, Oct 29  •  4:30pm

Dodge City: Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt

Join the bestselling author for a talk on his latest novel

Fiction
Conversation
Ticket or Pass Required
Passes available
Dodge City: Patrick deWitt
Dodge City: Patrick deWitt

Thu, Oct 29  •  4:30pm

Dodge City: Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt

Join the bestselling author for a talk on his latest novel

Conversation
Fiction
Ticket or Pass Required
Passes available

About

Booker Prize-shortlisted Canadian author Patrick deWitt returns with Dodge City, a rollicking road novel set against the upheavals of 1967 America. When 23-year-old Lee Clarke receives his Vietnam draft notice, he makes the first political decision of his life: to flee north to Canada. Armed with a suitcase, a bag of amphetamines and a showroom-new Jaguar, Lee sets out across the country, stopping along the way to say goodbye to his complicated family. The acclaimed author of The Sisters Brothers, French Exit and The Librarianist joins TIFA to discuss family, country, and what the past can tell us about the present.

Generously supported by Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett.

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. It’s 1967 in Los Angeles and Lee Clarke has received his draft notice, calling him up to fight in the Vietnam War. A straitlaced, apolitical twenty-three-year-old from Concrete, Washington, Lee is studying at UCLA until a fistfight leads to his expulsion—and his removal from the deferment list.

Published by House of Anansi Press

Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels The Librarianist (an instant #1 national bestseller and winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour), French Exit (an international bestseller and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize), The Sisters Brothers (winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Leacock Medal for Humour, and a finalist for the Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize), and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, he now resides in Portland, Oregon. 

Dates & Times

Thu, Oct 29
4:30pm
5:30pm
A book signing will follow this event

Tickets

Full Festival Pass
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Regular $159
Under 30 $79
5-Day Festival Pass
Includes 5-day festival events. Excludes Masterclasses.
Regular $159
Under 30 $79
1-Day Thursday
Includes all Thursday events.
Excludes Masterclasses.
Regular $29
Under 30 $15
Pass Information
5-Day Festival Pass includes Barbara Kingsolver and East West Street: A Song of Good & Evil .
2-Day Weekend and 1-Day Passes do not include Winter Garden Theatre events.

Venue

Victoria College Chapel
91 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 2C7

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