Ablutions

Name: Ablutions
Brand: Granta Books
SKU: 9781847086341
Price: 1800 KES
Availability: OutOfStock
ISBN: 9781847086341

by Patrick deWitt

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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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