Dodge Rose
By: Jack Cox
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781628971200
Subjects: Decedents' estates; Executors and administrators; Inheritance and succession; Cousins; Taxation; Fiction
Description: 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 Rose calls to mind Henry Green in its skewed use of colloquial speech, Joyce in its love of inventories, and William Gaddis in its virtuoso lampooning of law, high finance, and national myth.