Ablutions
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1847086349
ISBN-13
9781847086341
Publisher
Granta Books
Imprint
Granta Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 5th, 2012
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
132 grams
Dimensions
14.80 x 19.70 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
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From the author of the Booker shortlisted Sisters Brothers - 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 ...
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