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Original Title:	Ablutions: Notes for a Novel
ISBN:	0151014981 (ISBN13: 9780151014989)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Hollywood, California(United States)

Ablutions

Patrick deWitt

Hardcover | Pages: 162 pages

Rating: 3.64 | 4444 Users | 504 Reviews

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Title	:	Ablutions
Author	:	Patrick deWitt
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 162 pages
Published	:	February 28th 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Cultural. Canada. Novels

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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, but 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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I've said in other reviews that I could pretty much go the rest of my life without reading another novel set in a bar. And this one does have all the bar-book cliches: the surly bartender, the sad drunken teachers, the deteriorating regulars, the old lady that's really a man, the friendly homeless guy, the former child actor, the solo road trip. With all that said, I still really enjoyed it. The voice is rendered in a deadpan-poetic style that manages to feel fresh. The details all feel

I used to really love boozy, druggy novels when I was a teenager, regularly devouring books by Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Hubert Selby Jnr. and Patrick Hamilton where the protagonists were either alcoholics, drug addicts or both. But that was when I was a teenager and my literary tastes have since changed. So I was surprised to find myself drawn into Patrick deWitts debut novel Ablutions which takes place almost entirely in a dismal Hollywood bar filled with deadbeats and

I am not sure who this book is for. If it is for the sort of people it is written about, I am guessing they are too far gone to read the book. If it is intended as a cautionary tale for the people who are on the path of alcoholism, it's going to be a difficult, emotional read (made much worse by deWitt's decision to write in a second person narrative). If it is for anyone else, I can't see them enjoying the read. Ablutions Notes for a Novel is not entertaining. In fact, I'd say it is one of the

I don't know who the target audience for this book is supposed to be, but I'm definitely not part of it. I went in expecting something along the lines of American Whiskey Bar. Instead, I got the second-person (first strike) ramblings of an unlikable, and worse, uninteresting (second strike) bartender in Hollywood as he details his misadventures, most of which just involve him drinking and taking pills in different venues until he throws up and starts over (third strike). Absolutely nothing

Patrick deWitt's first novel is truly a theatre of the absurd. In such finely tuned prose, deWitt gracefully synthesizes so many contradictions. It is a dark book with characters swimming in despair and on desolation row, blotting out their crises and lost dreams in booze and drugs. But in this cesspool of tragedy and nothingness is a book that so funny, so beautiful, and brutally revelatory of what may lie beneath the bowels of the human condition. This book is both real and surreal at the same

This was an interesting book that, at first, had me wondering if I was going to be able to even finish it, but by the end, had completely won me over. Its Bukowski-esque in tone, poetic in a different way, and quite dark, focusing mainly on an alcoholic barback whose life is continuously spiraling out of control. While it is not heavy on the plot, the dive bar and its denizens make for a colorful ride, and while the protagonist (if you can call him that) is kind of an ugly person, you cant help

Quite similar to The Sisters Brothers in structure, but a bit less entertaining overall, whether because of the to relatable ugliness of the entire cast of characters or because the modern setting made the entire plot a bit to real, I'm still not sure of, but in either case it comes across as a lesser work in my experience.