Ablutions: A Novel (signed)
by dewitt, Patrick
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151014981
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014989
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Lindenlea Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004399
- Title
- Ablutions: A Novel (signed)
- Author
- dewitt, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151014981
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014989
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Patrick deWitt, Bars (Drinking Establishments) - Fiction, Authorship - Fiction, Alcoholics - Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian;
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