Patrick deWitt Livres

The raucous, poignant and spectacularly enjoyable novel by the author of Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Sisters Brothers .

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die, and hired guns Eli and Charlie Sisters will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's goldmining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living—and whom he does it for.

From the author of the Booker shortlisted Sisters Brothers - a dark, boozy and hilarious tale from the LA underworld.

A comedy/tragedy of manners. The new novel from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers 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, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. The curious trio head for the exit, escape pariahdom and land in Paris - a backdrop for self-destruction and economic ruin, and peopled by a number of singular characters: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic and Mme. Reynard, aggressive houseguest and friendly American expat. Brimming with pathos 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

AN INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER Selected as a Washington Post Book of the Summer 'I absolutely adored it' NINA STIBBE From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes a novel about an ordinary man who thought life's surprises were behind him - until a chance encounter changed everything Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books in a mint-colored house in Portland, Oregon. One morning on his daily walk he encounters a confused elderly woman lost in a market and returns her to the senior centre that is her home. Hoping to fill the void he's known since retiring, Bob begins volunteering at the center. Here, as a community of strange peers gathers around Bob, and following a brush with a painful complication from his past, the events of his life and the details of his character are revealed. Behind Bob Comet's straight man facade is the story of an unhappy child's runaway adventure during the last days of the Second World War, of true love won and stolen away, of the purpose and pride found in the librarian's vocation, and the pleasures of a life lived to the side of the masses.

Eine überragende rabenschwarzeSittenkomödie. Lucy Minor aus dem idyllischen Dorf Bury ist ein blasser, schwächlicher Junge. Er hat weder Freunde noch Pläne – dafür allerdings das Talent zu lügen und neuerdings ein Stellenangebot: für den Posten als Unteroberhaushofmeister auf dem Schloss des Barons Von Aux. Dort lernt Lucy allerlei skurrile Persönlichkeiten kennen und verliebt sich unsterblich in die schöne Klara. Einer allerdings bleibt im Verborgenen: der Baron Von Aux. Ebenso rätselhaft wie dessen Abwesenheit ist das Verschwinden von Lucys Vorgänger Broom. Was hat es mit dem Fehlen der beiden auf sich? Und wird Lucy das Herz von Klara erobern und sich gegen seinen Nebenbuhler Adolphus durchsetzen können?