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French ExitNational Bestseller NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF THE SEASON BY: Vanity Fair Entertainment Weekly Vulture The Millions Publishers Weekly Esquire San Francisco Chronicle USA Today Parade The Washington Post Buzzfeed From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration. Frances Price tart widow, possessive mother,
National Bestseller
NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF THE SEASON BY:
Vanity Fair - Entertainment Weekly - Vulture - The Millions - Publishers Weekly - Esquire - San Francisco Chronicle - USA Today - Parade - The Washington Post - Buzzfeed
From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.
Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's the Price's aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts.
Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin - to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, and a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, to name a few.
Brimming with pathos, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners, ' a send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute.
--The New YorkerBinding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 08/28/2018
ISBN: 9780062846921
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.75w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Library Journal 04/15/2018 pg. 59
Library Journal Prepub Alert 03/15/2018 pg. 74
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2018
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2018
Booklist 07/01/2018 pg. 14
BookPage 09/01/2018
Shelf Awareness 08/31/2018
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