Ablutions by Patrick Dewitt

Ablutions by Patrick Dewitt

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.

DeWitt, Patrick: - Patrick deWitt is also the author of the Booker shortlisted novel The Sisters Brothers and Undermajordomo Minor. He was born in 1975 on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he resides with his wife and son. He has worked as a laborer, a clerk, a dishwasher, and a bartender.

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ISBN 13	9780547335711
ISBN 10	0547335717
Title	Ablutions
Author	Patrick Dewitt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cengage Learning, Inc
Year published	2010-04-08
Number of pages	176
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.