Patrick deWitt is the author of The Librarianist and French Exit (both national bestsellers); The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize); and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, Canada, he now resides in Portland, Oregon.
"Imposing widow Frances Price and her grown son Malcolm go from
wealthy to broke and from Manhattan to Paris in this smart, tartly
funny novel." - People
"A cross between a Feydeau farce (fitting, given that the location
of most of the novel is Paris) and a Buñuel film, as one after
another in an eccentric cast of characters is introduced.... DeWitt
is in possession of a fresh, lively voice that surprises at every
turn." - Kate Atkinson, Vanity Fair
"Sharply observed moments give deWitt's well-written novel more
depth than the usual comedy of manners--a depth reinforced by the
exit that closes the tale, sharp object and all. Reminiscent at
points of The Ginger Man but in the end a bright, original yarn
with a surprising twist." - Kirkus Reviews
"Darkly comic, perfectly brilliant... Let deWitt take you along on
this dizzying, wild ride, you'll love every second of it, and then
hop back to the beginning for another go. It's worth the trip." -
Nylon Magazine
"French Exit made me so happy--I feel as if I have downed a third
martini, stayed up past sunrise, and still woken up refreshed.
Brilliant, addictive, funny and wise, DeWitt's latest has enough
charm to last you long after you've put it down, which is what so
many of us need in a book. I think you need it, too." - Andrew Sean
Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
"French Exit made me so happy--I feel as if I have downed a third
martini, stayed up past sunrise, and still woken up refreshed.
Brilliant, addictive, funny and wise, DeWitt's latest has enough
charm to last you long after you've put it down." - Andrew Sean
Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less
"I will read every book Patrick deWitt writes.... He casts black
humor and surrealist streaks of magic onto familiar literary
terrains. French Exit's Manhattan milieu evokes midcentury writers
like Salinger and Cheever.... DeWitt's writing is always
intriguingly off-center." - Poets & Writers
"Hilarious... Delightful.... In his book, as in [Edith] Wharton's,
New Yorkers' wit and elaborate manners cannot hide the searing
depth of their pain.... DeWitt is aiming for farce and to say
something about characters who cannot get out of their own way, and
he achieves both with élan." - Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Whatever you do, don't mess with Frances Price.... An entertaining
portrait of people who are obsessed with the looming specter of
death and who don't quite feel part of the time they were born
into." - BookPage
"[A] riotous tragedy of (ill) manners.... The show stealer here is
deWitt's knack for scene setting and dialogue in the form of
Frances' wry one-liners.... That Frances sure is a force to contend
with. But what a classy broad." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Darkly comic.... French Exit is both a satiric send-up of high
society and a wilding mother-son caper." - Poets & Writers
"[DeWitt] creates and conveys entire worlds -- and not just names
and places, but colors, smells, sounds and style.... Incredibly
entertaining and oddly sympathetic.... And snappy stage-worthy
dialogue -- deWitt's wheelhouse." - Eugene Register-Guard
"'My favorite book of his yet. The dialogue is dizzyingly good, the
world so weird and fresh. A triumph from a writer truly in the
zone." - Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and
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