Ablutions (ePub)

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.

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“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
 
“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, author of Closer, The Sluts, and God Jr.
 
“Patrick deWitt is the 21st century poet of Hollywood’s desperate souls, the misbegotten, broken, and the lost. He writes with a fierce compassion