From patrick dewitt, the bestselling and awardwinning author of the sisters brothers, comes a brilliant and darkly comi. Notes for a novel kindle edition by dewitt, patrick. Ablutions, dewitt s hollywoodset debut from 2009, tells the story of a young barmans drift into drink and divorce. Patrick dewitt is the author of the critically acclaimed ablutions and the sisters brothers, which won the 2011 governor generals literary award for fiction and the rogers writers trust fiction prize, and was shortlisted for the man booker prize for fiction, the scotiabank giller prize and the bord gais energy irish book awards.
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