{"product_id":"ablutions-notes-for-a-novel-9780547335711","title":"Ablutions: Notes for a Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut 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, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStep into \u003ci\u003eAblutions\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeWitt, Patrick:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Patrick deWitt is also the author of the Booker shortlisted novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sisters Brothers \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eUndermajordomo Minor\u003c\/i\u003e. He was born in 1975 on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and has also lived in California, Washington, and Oregon, where he resides with his wife and son. He has worked as a laborer, a clerk, a dishwasher, and a bartender.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50655544213778,"sku":"9780547335711","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_782854ca-faac-476a-b51d-62ca1781d70d.jpg?v=1733381664","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ablutions-notes-for-a-novel-9780547335711","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}