Ablutions
Ablutions
paperback
Published:
5 January, 2012
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781847086341 |
| ISBN10 | 1847086349 |
| Number Of Pages | 176 |
| Item Weight | 130 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 10 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Granta Books |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Brilliant * The Times *
An instant classic * Dazed and Confused *
A brief, intense and carefully sustained piece of writing about the blurry edges of existence * Guardian *
Hilariously gloomy ... a sober reminder to stick to the diet tonic water * Independent *
Drips with black humour * New Statesman *
Sometimes poetic, sometimes terrible, sometimes funny, often all three at once... Remarkable * Scotsman *
Evokes with good humour the lives of his crazed colleagues and clientele, whose nightly revels terminate in violence and vice ... Ablutions doesn't glorify alcoholism, but nor does it present a moral, skilfully dodging the traps it sets itself. That second-person narration, for instance, risks looking like a gimmick but you grow to view it as a symptom of the protagonist's self-obliteration. And where a more conventional novel might have added a dollop of backstory as a key to his pain, here there's nothing but a void -- Anthony Cummins * Observer *
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Author's Bio
PATRICK DEWITT's first novel, Ablutions, was published by Granta Books in 2009. His second novel, The Sisters Brothers, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Governor General Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. He lives in Portland, Oregon.