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Ablutions
de Patrick DeWitt
- Usado
- as new
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 1770892141
- ISBN 13
- 9781770892149
- Librería
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Tight and unmarked-" From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.-A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he is morbidly amused by watching the regulars roll in and fall into their nightly oblivion, pitying them and their loneliness. In hopes of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with them. He also knocks back pills indiscriminately and treats himself to gallons of Jameson's. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to lose himself, trapped by addiction and indecision. When his wife leaves him, he embarks on a series of squalidly random sexual encounters and a downward spiral of self-damage and irrational violence. To cleanse himself and save his soul, he attempts to escape . . ."
Sinopsis
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.
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Detalles
- Librería
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 14493
- Título
- Ablutions
- Autor
- Patrick DeWitt
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo As New
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1770892141
- ISBN 13
- 9781770892149
- Editorial
- Anansi
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 2012
- Size
- 8 vo
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