Patrick DeWitt
French Exit
NOW A MAJOR FILM
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NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND LUCAS HEDGESA tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers'My favourite book of his yet' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette'Pure joy' Mail on Sunday 'Buoyantly insane' New YorkerFrances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged, toddler-brained son Malcolm is no help. Cutting their losses, they grab their cat, Small Frank, and head for the exit. Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self-destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters.Brimming with…
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NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND LUCAS HEDGESA tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers'My favourite book of his yet' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette'Pure joy' Mail on Sunday 'Buoyantly insane' New YorkerFrances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged, toddler-brained son Malcolm is no help. Cutting their losses, they grab their cat, Small Frank, and head for the exit. Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self-destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters.Brimming with pathos, warmth and wit, French Exit is a riotous send-up of high society and a moving story of mothers and sons.
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- ISBN: 978-1-5266-0119-3
- EAN: 9781526601193
- Produktnummer: 28610617
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.8 cm 177 g
- Gewicht: 177
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Patrick deWitt is the author of The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General's Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He also is the author of Ablutions, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and Undermajordomo Minor. The Sisters Brothers is being adapted for film by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), to star Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, for release in 2018. Born in British Columbia, Canada, deWitt now resides in Portland, Oregon.
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