Ablutions
of Patrick deWitt
Description
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, but 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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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 162 pages
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication Date February 28th 2009
- First Publication 11/06/09
- Language English
- ISBN 9780151014989
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Hollywood, California (United States)']
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