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Patrick deWitt

Autor(a) de The Sisters Brothers

7+ Works 6,880 Membros 462 Reviews 4 Favorited

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Obras de Patrick deWitt

The Sisters Brothers (2011) 4,246 cópias
French Exit (2018) 832 cópias
Undermajordomo Minor (2015) 818 cópias
The Librarianist (2023) 584 cópias
Ablutions (2009) 381 cópias
The Bastard (2016) 10 cópias

Associated Works

The Sisters Brothers [2018 film] (2019) — Original book — 39 cópias
Electric Literature No. 3 (2010) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Electric Literature No. 4 (2010) — Contribuinte — 7 cópias

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The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt em Booker Prize (Setembro 2013)

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I stuck with Patrick deWitt's first novel, “Ablutions” (2009) to the end because I love his later novels like “French Exit” and “The Sisters Brothers,” but it is a disappointing and disgusting book. The author tells us more than we want to know about humanity at its worst.

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.
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hardlyhardy | outras 26 resenhas | Mar 18, 2024 |
I thought this would be a gentle, slightly humorous book about a seventy year old man's life. And it is! I thought it would be like 'Dinosaurs' by Lydia Millet and it is! Though 'Dinosaurs' is dear to my heart. I will not give any of the surprises away here, but I also didn't see how much of this tied together, other than to be a gentle story of a man's life. I wish I had more to say, but I also expected to like it more. It was fine! Also, not bookish enough considering the title!
*Book #149/340 I have read of the shortlisted Morning News Tournament of Books… (mais)
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booklove2 | outras 34 resenhas | Mar 6, 2024 |
Patrick Dewitt is a popular author but in this book he winds a lacklustre story to a fizzled out ending that was so unsatisfactory I wanted to yell.
Dewitt creates Bob, makes us care about him, but the ending of the book is just a bunch of unconnected vignettes that offer nothing about Bob’s nature. There is no character development, no change in any of the characters. I found this frustrating. I mean yes, life is just so daily, but I read to get a glimmer of how people thrive in life or don’t, not just skid along the surface.
Ultimately disappointing. Well-written but there’s not a moment of tension anywhere.
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Dabble58 | outras 34 resenhas | Feb 21, 2024 |
 
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BooksInMirror | outras 46 resenhas | Feb 19, 2024 |

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Philippe Aronson Traduction, Translator
Emmanuelle Aronson Traduction, Translator
Dan Stiles Cover artist
Simon Prebble Narrator
Sophie Voillot Translator
Halimah Marcus Introduction

Estatísticas

Obras
7
Also by
3
Membros
6,880
Popularidade
#3,557
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
462
ISBNs
149
Idiomas
13
Favorito
4

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