Ablutions is my third time reading Patrick deWitt and he does not disappoint. I adored The Sisters Brothers and highly enjoyed French Exit, so was interested to see how his debut novel would measure up. Ablutions is told in the second person from the point of view of an unnamed young barman in LA…
The Sisters Brothers is undoubtedly a western, but this is a western of the mind rather than of the landscape. Set against the backdrop of the 1850s gold rush, the story is structured around an outwardly simple propulsive narrative, the book follows the narrator, Eli Sisters and his brother Charlie as they pursue a gold…
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