French Exit: NOW A MAJOR FILM - Couverture souple

DeWitt, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526601192 ISBN 13 : 9781526601193

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING MICHELLE PFEIFFER AND LUCAS HEDGES

A tragedy of manners from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Sisters Brothers

'My favourite book of his yet' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

'Pure joy' Mail on Sunday

'Buoyantly insane' New Yorker

Frances Price is in dire straits. Scandals swirl around the recently widowed New York socialite, and her adult-aged, toddler-brained son Malcolm is no help.

Cutting their losses, they grab their cat, Small Frank, and head for the exit. Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self-destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters.

Brimming with pathos, warmth and wit, French Exit is a riotous send-up of high society and a moving story of mothers and sons.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Patrick deWitt is the author of The Sisters Brothers, which won the Governor General's Award and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Walter Scott Prize. He also is the author of Ablutions, which was a New York Times Editor's Choice, and Undermajordomo Minor. The Sisters Brothers is being adapted for film by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, A Prophet), to star Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed and John C. Reilly, for release in 2018. French Exit, his third book, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Born in British Columbia, Canada, deWitt now resides in Portland, Oregon.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Frances Price - tart widow, possessive mother and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's their cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral lawyer whose gruesome tabloid death rendered them social outcasts. To put their troubles behind them, the trio cut their losses and head for the exit. Their beloved Paris becomes the backdrop for a giddy drive to self-destruction, helped along by a cast of singularly curious characters: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic and Mme. Reynard, friendly American expat and aggressive houseguest. Brimming with pathos, warmth and wit, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind tragedy of manners, a riotous send-up of high society and a moving story of mothers and sons.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526601192
• ISBN 13: 9781526601193
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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