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Ablutions: Notes for a Novel
by DeWitt, Patrick
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151014981
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014989
- Seller
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Lewisville, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight clean unread copy of the author's first novel. This copy has a board edge bump. The priced jacket has some light edge wear else fine. By the author of The Sisters Brothers THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLT SHIP NEXT DAY. .
Synopsis
In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn't break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption. Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044922
- Title
- Ablutions: Notes for a Novel
- Author
- DeWitt, Patrick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151014981
- ISBN 13
- 9780151014989
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
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Terms of Sale
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Lewisville, Texas
About Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
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