Patrick deWitt

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride - fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to Sacramento. But their prey isn''t an easy mark, the road is long and bloody, and somewhere along the path Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for.The Sisters Brothers pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable ribald tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of losers, cheaters, and ne''er-do-wells from all stripes of life-and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

El premiado autor superventas Patrick deWitt nos presenta la historia de Bob Comet, un hombre que ha vivido por y para la literatura, sin saber que su propia experiencia supone una narración emotiva y conmovedora en si misma.Bob Comet es un bibliotecario jubilado que pasa los dias en soledad, rodeado de libros y pequeñas comodidades en una casa de color menta en Portland, Oregon. Una mañana, durante su paseo diario, se topa con una anciana confusa que esta perdida en un supermercado y la lleva de vuelta a la residencia de mayores donde vive. Con la esperanza de llenar el vacio que experimenta desde que se jubilo, empieza a colaborar como voluntario en el centro. Alli, rodeado por una comunidad de residentes peculiares, y tras un roce fortuito con un episodio doloroso de su pasado, saldran a la luz los acontecimientos de su vida y los detalles que definen su personalidad.Detras de esa fachada de individuo hecho y derecho que muestra Bob, se oculta la historia de la fuga de casa un niño desdichado durante los ultimas dias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial; la de un amor verdadero obtenido y arrebatado; la del orgullo y el objetivo vital encontrados en la vocacion de bibliotecario, y la de los placeres de una vida que ha transcurrido al margen de la muchedumbre. Las experiencias de Bob estan imbuidas de melancolia, pero tambien de un sentido del humor lucido y persistente; es un hombre con un talento especial para localizar y añadir interpretes de lo mas insolito al escenario de su vida.Con su inimitable pulso narrativo, su humor cargado de ingenio y su compasion por aquellos que habitan los margenes, Patrick deWitt ha escrito un documento ambicioso y de largo alcance sobre la naturaleza de la introversion. El hombre que amaba los libros celebra lo extraordinario en eso que llamamos vida cotidiana, y plasma con belleza la turbulencia que a veces existe bajo una superficie serena.Un autor con una imaginacion desbordante. ?Washington PostEsta apasionante semblanza ficticia de un bibliotecario jubilado que colabora como voluntario en una residencia de ancianos disecciona la vida de su protagonista ?las traiciones, las perdidas, los triunfos? con humor y ternura. ?Vanity FairCautivador. [El hombre que amaba los libros] comparte los atributos de su protagonista: cae bien, no es pretencioso. y te deja con una sonrisa en la boca. ?Wall Street Journal

Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's their cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral lawyer whose gruesome tabloid death rendered them social outcasts. To put their troubles behind them, the trio cut their losses and head for the exit. Their beloved Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self-destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic and Mme. Reynard, friendly American expat and aggressive houseguest. Brimming with pathos, warmth and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind tragedy of manners, a riotous send-up of high society and a moving story of mothers and sons.

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forbidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and a puppy. He also meets Klara, a delicate beauty who is, unfortunately, already involved with an exceptionally handsome partisan soldier. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behaviour is laid bare for our hero to observe. Lucy must stay safe, and protect his puppy, because someone or something is roaming the corridors of the castle late at night.Undermajordomo Minor is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers. It is an adventure story, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour with a brandy tart, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.

Una hilarante y emocionante novela de iniciación sobre un joven mayordomo que descubre los misterios de la vida y las heridas del amor. Lucy Minor, un joven que está dejando atrás la adolescencia y adentrandose en el mundo adulto, se marcha del pueblo entre montañas del que no ha salido jamas. Lo hace despues de sufrir un desengaño amoroso y constatar que en ese lugar en el que abundan los rudos gigantones sera siempre un marginado. Lleva en el bolsillo una carta con una oferta de trabajo: un puesto de ayudante de mayordomo en el castillo Von Aux.El ingenuo Lucy se topara con personajes variopintos: un mayordomo dado a filosofar y a la melancolia; una cocinera inepta que no acepta criticas; un aristocrata que cada dia envia una desesperada carta de amor sin obtener nunca respuesta; unos peculiares guerrilleros que combaten en las montañas sin saber muy bien por que; dos ladrones profesionales que ejercen su oficio en los trenes, y Klara, la hija de uno de ellos... Rodeado por esta galeria de excentricos, Lucy indagara en la misteriosa desaparicion de su antecesor, descubrira en el castillo a un ser humano salvaje que come roedores, sera testigo de una extraña orgia en la que una tarta se convierte en instrumento sadomasoquista, escuchara algunas historias sobre perfidos seductores y maestros del engaño y, sobre todo, ira descubriendo las pasiones y pesares del mundo adulto y los vaivenes del amor, que no es para pusilanimes.DeWitt toma como punto de partida la novela centroeuropea, los antiheroes de Robert Walser y el universo kafkiano, y los mezcla con un protagonista que parece salido de un slapstick con unas gotas de cine expresionista. El resultado es un Bildungsroman posmoderno, que combina un humor descacharrante con una profunda mirada sobre las incertezas y perplejidades de un joven ante las paradojas de la vida.

Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there''s their cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral lawyer whose gruesome tabloid death rendered them social outcasts.To put their troubles behind them, the trio cut their losses and head for the exit. Their beloved Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self-destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic and Mme. Reynard, friendly American expat and aggressive houseguest.Brimming with pathos, warmth and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind tragedy of manners, a riotous send-up of high society and a moving story of mothers and sons.

Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold Rush America. Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his way; Eli doubts his vocation and falls in love. And they bicker a lot. Then they get to California, and discover that Warm is an inventor who has come up with a magical formula, which could make all of them very rich. What happens next is utterly gripping, strange and sad. Told in deWitt's darkly comic and arresting style, The Sisters Brothers is the kind of Western the Coen Brothers might write - stark, unsettling and with a keen eye for the perversity of human motivation. Like his debut novel ABLUTIONS, THE SISTERS BROTHERS is a novel about the things you tell yourself in order to be able to continue to live the life you find yourself in, and what happens when those stories no longer work. It is an inventive and strange and beautifully controlled piece of fiction, which shows an exciting expansion of Dewitt's range

Oregon, 1851. Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious professional killers, are on their way to California to kill a man named Hermann Kermit Warm. On the way, the brothers have a series of unsettling and violent experiences in the Darwinian landscape of Gold Rush America. Charlie makes money and kills anyone who stands in his way; Eli doubts his vocation and falls in love. And they bicker a lot. Then they get to California, and discover that Warm is an inventor who has come up with a magical formula, which could make all of them very rich. What happens next is utterly gripping, strange and sad. Told in deWitt's darkly comic and arresting style, THE WARM JOB is the kind of Western the Coen Brothers might write - stark, unsettling and with a keen eye for the perversity of human motivation. Like his debut novel ABLUTIONS, THE WARM JOB is a novel about the things you tell yourself in order to be able to continue to live the life you find yourself in, and what happens when those stories no longer work. It is an inventive and strange and beautifully controlled piece of fiction, which shows an exciting expansion of Dewitt's range

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.

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and a melancholy weakling. When Lucy accepts employment assisting the majordomo of the remote, forbidding castle of the Baron Von Aux he meets thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and a puppy. He also meets Klara, a delicate beauty who is, unfortunately, already involved with an exceptionally handsome partisan soldier. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behaviour is laid bare for our hero to observe. Lucy must stay safe, and protect his puppy, because someone or something is roaming the corridors of the castle late at night. Undermajordomo Minor is a triumphant ink-black comedy of manners by the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers. It is an adventure story, and a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behaviour with a brandy tart, but above all it is a love story. And Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.

Laissant derriere eux New York, de lourds effluves de scandale et le spectre de la ruine financiere, Frances Price (veuve foutraque aussi belle quacerbe) et son fils unique Malcolm (loser a tous les etages) larguent les amarres en compagnie de Small Frank, le chat (reincarnation maussade du defunt mari). Direction Paris, ou une derniere bataille doit etre livree, qui pourrait bien etre synonyme dautodestruction Une viree mere/fils desopilante, que seul un Patrick deWitt pouvait concevoir.

Laissant derriere eux New York, de lourds effluves de scandale et le spectre de la ruine financiere, Frances Price (veuve foutraque aussi belle quacerbe) et son fils unique Malcolm (loser a tous les etages) larguent les amarres en compagnie de Small Frank, le chat (reincarnation maussade du defunt mari). Direction Paris, ou une derniere bataille doit etre livree, qui pourrait bien etre synonyme dautodestruction Une viree mere/fils desopilante, que seul un Patrick deWitt pouvait concevoir.

Descente aux enfers en forme de rencontre avec les divers ressortissants dune cour des miracles ayant élu pour siège un bar de Los Angeles, Ablutions constitue une variation exceptionnelle, servie p

Descente aux enfers en forme de rencontre avec les divers ressortissants dune cour des miracles ayant élu pour siège un bar de Los Angeles, Ablutions constitue une variation exceptionnelle, servie p

Una hilarante y emocionante novela de iniciación sobre un joven mayordomo que descubre los misterios de la vida y las heridas del amor.Lucy Minor, un joven que está dejando atrás la adolescencia y adentrandose en el mundo adulto, se marcha del pueblo entre montañas del que no ha salido jamas. Lo hace despues de sufrir un desengaño amoroso y constatar que en ese lugar en el que abundan los rudos gigantones sera siempre un marginado. Lleva en el bolsillo una carta con una oferta de trabajo: un puesto de ayudante de mayordomo en el castillo Von Aux.El ingenuo Lucy se topara con personajes variopintos: un mayordomo dado a filosofar y a la melancolia; una cocinera inepta que no acepta criticas; un aristocrata que cada dia envia una desesperada carta de amor sin obtener nunca respuesta; unos peculiares guerrilleros que combaten en las montañas sin saber muy bien por que; dos ladrones profesionales que ejercen su oficio en los trenes, y Klara, la hija de uno de ellos... Rodeado por esta galeria de excentricos, Lucy indagara en la misteriosa desaparicion de su antecesor, descubrira en el castillo a un ser humano salvaje que come roedores, sera testigo de una extraña orgia en la que una tarta se convierte en instrumento sadomasoquista, escuchara algunas historias sobre perfidos seductores y maestros del engaño y, sobre todo, ira descubriendo las pasiones y pesares del mundo adulto y los vaivenes del amor, que no es para pusilanimes.DeWitt toma como punto de partida la novela centroeuropea, los antiheroes de Robert Walser y el universo kafkiano, y los mezcla con un protagonista que parece salido de un slapstick con unas gotas de cine expresionista. El resultado es un Bildungsroman posmoderno, que combina un humor descacharrante con una profunda mirada sobre las incertezas y perplejidades de un joven ante las paradojas de la vida.

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIXA BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly Amazon Hudson Booksellers Washington Post Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesnt share his brothers appetite for whiskey and killing, hes never known anything else. But their prey isnt an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warms gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living-and whom he does it for. With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters-losers, cheaters, and neer-do-wells from all stripes of life-and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

From the bestselling, Man Bookershort-listed author of The Sisters Brothers comes a brilliant and boisterous novel that reimagines the folk taleA love story, an adventure story, a fable without a moral, and an ink-black comedy of manners, Undermajordomo Minor is Patrick deWitts long-awaited follow-up to the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Sisters Brothers.Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux.While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which being the whereabouts of the castles master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colorful people of the local villagethieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty for whose love he must compete with the exceptionally handsome soldier Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of humanity is laid bare for our hero to observe.Undermajordomo Minor is an adventure, a mystery, and a searing portrayal of rural Alpine bad behavior, but above all it is a love storyand Lucy must be careful, for love is a violent thing.

Patrick deWitt, auteur à succès des *Frères Sisters*, nous revient avec lhistoire de Bob Comet, un bibliothécaire à la retraire qui a vécu sa vie à travers et pour la littérature sans se douter que s

Patrick deWitt, auteur à succès des *Frères Sisters*, nous revient avec lhistoire de Bob Comet, un bibliothécaire à la retraire qui a vécu sa vie à travers et pour la littérature sans se douter que s

A perfect novel on the knifes edge of hilarity and tenderness JONATHAN LETHEM From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers comes Dodge City, a thrilling novel about a young man on an amphetamine fuelled cross-country road trip fleeing the Vietnam draft. 1967, California. Lee Clarke is a strait-laced twenty-three-year-old, happily in love and ambling along at college until an ill-advised fistfight leads to his expulsion. Soon, he receives his draft notice to serve in the Vietnam War, which forces Lee to make the first political decision of his life: he will leave the country and his girlfriend and head for the Canadian border. He signs up at a drive-away car delivery service, chancing into a new Jaguar bound for the East Coast. Carrying only a single suitcase and a bag of amphetamines, Lee knows he cant go without saying his goodbyes. In four different towns strung out along the US, Lee visits each member of his family: his father, an alcoholic World War Two veteran; his mother, engaged in a buoyantly manic performance with her shut-in sibling; his heartbroken, misanthropic brother Harry; and finally his twin sister, Grace, a brash, young psychiatric nurse-in-training mired in romantic drama. As Lee makes his stimulated progress across the country, his past keeps rising to meet him. He cant help but wonder, what will his decision to leave mean for his future? A beautiful, sweeping and raucous portrait of a country in flux and a family in disarray, Dodge City confirms deWitt as one of our most brilliant satirists and a novelist of staggering heart.