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Ablutions

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By (author): Patrick deWitt

A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness. In hopes of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with them. He also knocks back pills indiscriminately and treats himself to gallons of Jameson's. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to lose himself, trapped by addiction and indecision. When his wife leaves him, he embarks on a series of squalidly random sexual encounters and a downward spiral of self-damage and irrational violence. To cleanse himself and save his soul, he attempts to escape ... See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 130g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jan 2012
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781847086341

About Patrick deWitt

PATRICK DEWITT's first novel Ablutions was published by Granta Books in 2009. His second novel The Sisters Brothers won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize the Governor General Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. He lives in Portland Oregon.

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