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Patrick deWitt
The triumphant new black comic adventure from the author of the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers
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AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER** Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer**'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel…
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A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers
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Patrick DeWitt
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own…
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: deWitt's dazzlingly original novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother, which was shortlisted for the…
Patrick deWitt (Y)
The raucous, poignant and spectacularly enjoyable novel by the author of Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers .
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Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt’s dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.
From the author of the Booker shortlisted Sisters Brothers - a dark, boozy and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.
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AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER
'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE
Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer
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Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband’s tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New York for Paris, where she and her deadbeat son navigate near-comic self-destructive choices. –Publisher’s description.
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…
From the bestselling, Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk tale
The Sisters Brothers is dark, dark, and funny, both ha ha and strange, but it’s a lot more, too, a lyrical meditation on work and love from a narrator who…
Picture yourself as a bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your customers descend into nightly oblivion. Your heart is broken by the world around you and, leaving the whisky aside…
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From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is…