Ablutions: Notes for a Novel
apr 2010 · Venduto da HarperCollins
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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.
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.
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 th...
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Patrick deWitt is the author of The Librarianist and French Exit (both national bestsellers); The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize); and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, Canada, he now resides in Portland, Oregon.
Patrick deWitt is the author of The Librarianist and French Exit (both national bestsellers); The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize); and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, Canada, he now resides in ...
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