Patrick deWitt
Autor(a) de The Sisters Brothers
About the Author
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Obras de Patrick deWitt
Help Yourself Help Yourself 9 cópias
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- deWitt, Patrick
- Nome de batismo
- deWitt, Patrick
- Data de nascimento
- 1975
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Canada (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Local de nascimento
- Sidney, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Locais de residência
- Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA
Portland, Oregon, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA - Ocupação
- novelist
screenwriter - Premiações
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize (2011)
Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction (2011)
Stephen Leacock Medal (2012)
Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2012)
Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award (2012)
Membros
Discussions
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt em Booker Prize (Setembro 2013)
Resenhas
Listas
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Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 6,880
- Popularidade
- #3,557
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 462
- ISBNs
- 149
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 4
The novel — deWitt calls it "notes for a novel" because it consists of short glimpses of characters and events rather than a straight narrative — tells of the regulars at a Hollywood bar. Most of these people have either hit bottom, are on their way down or still wrongly believe they are on the way up. They all drink too much and take too many drugs. This includes our unnamed narrator, who gets free drinks as part of his compensation for working there.
Their drinking, drug taking and sex acts in the back room are described in detail. The narrator's wife leaves him for another man. He begins stealing money from the bar. His life goes from bad to worse.
Yet the novel is a confession, of sorts. The title is a religious term referring to "washing one's body or part of it," a cleansing. And that is sort of what the reader wants to do after reading it.… (mais)