Ablutions

Author(s): Patrick deWitt

Fiction

In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars.
 
But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn't break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption.
 
Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences.

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"...dark and provocative ... deWitt has painted a portrait of the human condition ... And ABLUTIONS has achieved something remarkable." - The New York Times Book Review "...deWitt's writing is sharp and bitter and funny ..." - Los Angeles Times "DeWitt's dirty realism makes me want to roll in the mud with him. Brilliant." - Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan "Viciously hilarious ... deWitt's portrayal of the drinking life is staunchly unromantic." - Time Out New York "These scenes are stunningly depicted ... deWitt writes beautifully about ugliness, and his book casts a haunting spell." - Booklist "DeWitt's style of prose is refreshing and more like real life speak than most books, without losing the necessary descriptiveness to relay the feel and pure nuttiness of the situation inside the Hollywood bar where the scenes are set." - About.com

Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he currently lives with his wife and son. He is the author of two novels, Ablutions and The Sisters Brothers.

General Fields

  • : 9781847086341
  • : Granta Books
  • : Granta Books
  • : 130.0
  • : May 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Patrick deWitt
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 813.6
  • : 176
  • : FA