Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels French Exit (a national bestseller), The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize), and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, he now resides in Portland, Oregon.
PRAISE FOR ABLUTIONS:
"... dark and provocative ... deWitt has painted a portrait of the
human condition ... And ABLUTIONS has achieved something
remarkable." --The New York Times Book Review
"... deWitt's writing is sharp and bitter and funny ... " --Los
Angeles Times
"DeWitt's dirty realism makes me want to roll in the mud with him.
Brilliant." --Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan "Viciously
hilarious ... deWitt's portrayal of the drinking life is staunchly
unromantic." -- Time Out New York (Five stars; Book of the day)
"These scenes are stunningly depicted ... deWitt writes beautifully
about ugliness, and his book casts a haunting spell." --
Booklist
"DeWitt's style of prose is refreshing and more like real life
speak than most books, without losing the necessary descriptiveness
to relay the feel and pure nuttiness of the situation inside the
Hollywood bar where the scenes are set." -- About.com "Ablutions is
like an intense art-house movie, where the lead actor is in every
scene but makes the whole thing sparkle with his star power." --
The Oregonian
"Ablutions is funny and precarious, a novel that shifts the ground
under the reader's feet, a naked-lightbulb self-examination that
doesn't shy from high comedy. DeWitt has a gimlet eye and a dead
aim with words."-- Luc Sante, author of Low Life
"Patrick deWitt's writing is deeply charismatic -- a coiled ramble
of note perfect sentences, mysterious and burbling declarative
tones, the saddest humor imaginable, and the strange physical
proportions of a magician's top hat. I was equally taken aback by
the needling brilliance that surfaces at its every turn and riveted
by the brains and heart it must have taken to finesse such a
clearly broken down yet perfectly clear and penetrating world. I
love this novel very much." -- Dennis Cooper "Patrick deWitt is the
21st century poet of Hollywood's desperate souls, the misbegotten,
broken, and the lost. He writes with a fierce compassion about
people treading the vague boundary between homicide and
self-destruction, loveless sex and sexless love, all lined up and
looking into our own culturally shared abyss. Beware, beware. But
read Ablutions." --Chris Offutt, author of No Heroes: A Memoir of
Coming Home
"Ablutions is a novel about the deteriorating health of our livers
and the malaise of our dreams. Perverse in its humor, but
ultimately about our potential for redemption, it's riotously funny
and cripplingly sad all at the same time. Patrick DeWitt takes on
our diseases and depravity with prose that may yet rescue us from
the gutter." -- Salvador Plascencia, author of The People of Paper
PRAISE FOR PATRICK DEWITT "A hypnotic cross between Lorrie Moore
and Denis Johnson."--Seattle Weekly
"Something truly fresh, something that gave me a reading experience
as shivery and enlivening as I've had in a long time."--Dennis
Cooper, author of Closer, The Sluts, and God Jr.
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PRAISE FOR ABLUTIONS:
"... dark and provocative ... deWitt has painted a portrait of the
human condition ... And ABLUTIONS has achieved something
remarkable." --The New York Times Book Review
"... deWitt's writing is sharp and bitter and funny ... " --Los
Angeles Times
"DeWitt's dirty realism makes me want to roll in the mud with him.
Brilliant." --Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan
"Viciously hilarious ... deWitt's portrayal of the drinking
life is staunchly unromantic." -- Time Out New York (Five
stars; Book of the day) "These scenes are
stunningly depicted ... deWitt writes beautifully about ugliness,
and his book casts a haunting spell." -- Booklist
"DeWitt's style of prose is refreshing and more like real life
speak than most books, without losing the necessary descriptiveness
to relay the feel and pure nuttiness of the situation inside the
Hollywood bar where the scenes are set." -- About.com
"Ablutions is like an intense art-house movie,
where the lead actor is in every scene but makes the whole thing
sparkle with his star power." -- The Oregonian
"Ablutions is funny and precarious, a novel that shifts
the ground under the reader's feet, a naked-lightbulb
self-examination that doesn't shy from high comedy. DeWitt has a
gimlet eye and a dead aim with words."-- Luc Sante, author of
Low Life
"Patrick deWitt's writing is deeply charismatic -- a coiled ramble
of note perfect sentences, mysterious and burbling declarative
tones, the saddest humor imaginable, and the strange physical
proportions of a magician's top hat. I was equally taken aback by
the needling brilliance that surfaces at its every turn and riveted
by the brains and heart it must have taken to finesse such a
clearly broken down yet perfectly clear and penetrating world. I
love this novel very much." -- Dennis Cooper "Patrick
deWitt is the 21st century poet of Hollywood's desperate souls, the
misbegotten, broken, and the lost. He writes with a fierce
compassion about people treading the vague boundary between
homicide and self-destruction, loveless sex and sexless love, all
lined up and looking into our own culturally shared abyss. Beware,
beware. But read Ablutions." --Chris Offutt, author of No
Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
"Ablutions is a novel about the deteriorating health of
our livers and the malaise of our dreams. Perverse in its humor,
but ultimately about our potential for redemption, it's riotously
funny and cripplingly sad all at the same time. Patrick DeWitt
takes on our diseases and depravity with prose that may yet rescue
us from the gutter." -- Salvador Plascencia, author of The
People of Paper PRAISE FOR
PATRICK DEWITT "A hypnotic
cross between Lorrie Moore and Denis Johnson."--Seattle
Weekly
"Something truly fresh, something that gave me a reading experience
as shivery and enlivening as I've had in a long time."--Dennis
Cooper, author of Closer, The Sluts, and God Jr.
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