Anxiety Press presents Maximum Taxi, a new novel by Douglas Bales, that will be available June 1 in print and e-book formats at Amazon.com.
Review for Maximum Taxi:
It is a fictionalized, first-person account based on the three years that he spent driving a cab in Chattanooga. It is fast paced, funny, irreverent, and emotionally poignant.
The narrator is caught up in a series of odd and sometimes uncomfortable situations with his customers, himself, and the denizens of the city streets, all the while trying to be kind and helpful to the people that he meets in an attempt to improve his own karma. He tries to understand the fallacies of modern society and struggles with the financial decay of the taxi business while he’s fighting to make a living in a menial job.
“Douglas Bales comes from that great tradition of American storytellers," said David P. langlinais, author of Duck Thief and Other Stories. "His voice is honest and unpretentious, and the rhythms of his prose lead us through moments that are sometimes light-hearted and always eye-opening. Gritty, darkly comical, compassionate, and heartbreaking...Maximum Taxi is a ride that doesn’t disappoint.”
Mr. Bales is a musician and writer from Chattanooga. He has previously had poetry published in Skyline magazine (Vol. 3 Issue 6, 2003), Poem Train, Fast Track Contest (2003, 4th place), Through the Window (Vol. 1 Issue 1, 2004), Flesh from Ashes (Vol. 3, 2004), Inclement (Vol. 4, Issue 2, 2004), Inclement (Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2005), Current Accounts (Issue 23, 2007), and Defuncted On-line Journal (March, 2023).