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Ablutions: Notes for a Novel 1st edition
Patrick Dewitt
Ablutions: Notes for a Novel 1st edition
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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 8, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9780547335711 |
Publishers | Mariner Books |
Pages | 176 |
Dimensions | 132 × 201 × 15 mm · 158 g |
Language | English |
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