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Title Statement | Ablutions: notes for a novel / Patrick deWitt. |
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Author | deWitt, Patrick, 1975- |
Publication | Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2012, c2009. |
Extent of Item | 164 p. |
ISBN | 1770892141 (pbk.) 9781770892149 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 2314116 |
General Notes | Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Includes questions for discussion. |
Summary | A bartender in a declining Hollywood bar documents the actions of his various down-and-out regulars, planning to use his notes for a future novel, but soon finds himself becoming one of them as he descends into addiction and his life begins to unravel. After a half-hearted attempt at cleaning up his act fails, he hatches a terrible plan of escape, his only chance for redemption. |
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By Topic | Alcoholics--Fiction |
Bartenders--Fiction | |
Authorship--Fiction | |
Bars (Drinking establishments)--Fiction | |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |