Dodge Rose [Paperback]

Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine, a hitherto unknown cousin, occupying Dodge's apartment. When legal complications derail plans to live it up on their inheritance, the women's lives become consumed by absurd attempts to deal with Australian tax law, as well their own mounting boredom and squalor. The most astonishing debut novel of the decade,Dodge Rosecalls to mind Henry Green in its skewed use of colloquial speech, James Joyce in its love of inventories, and William Gaddis in its virtuoso lampooning of law, high finance, and national myth. There will be few novels released this year as original, daring and difficult asDodge Rose. -Sydney Morning Herald- Honored as a Most Anticipated book of 2016 byThe Millions, featured in the Great 2016 Book Preview - Jack Cox touted as as a young, Australian Beckett. - It will go down as one of the most charming, mystifying, and dexterous first novels to have appeared in some thirty years. - Jeremy M. Davies, editor Australian writer Jack Cox???s frisky and disorienting debutDodge Roseis part legal satire and part mash note to James Joyce. . . . Mr. Cox has a Joycean love of colloquialisms, puns and lists, and he modulates between drastically different registers of speech...[it's a] brilliant showoff of a book... for a reader open to linguistic spectacle, it???s a memorable performance. -Wall Street Journal Cox is a beautiful writer. -The Saturday Paper It is an original, at times brilliant work that in its avoidance of cliche, its restorative effect on language, actually does recall Beckett. -The Guardian Cox has created in Max one of the most extraordinary narrative voices I???ve read this year. -The National