French Exit
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.8
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Patrick deWitt
Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges, directed by Azazael JacobsA Recommended Read from:Vanity Fair * Entertainment Weekly * Vulture * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * EsquireFrom 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.
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More Details:
Author
Patrick deWitt
Pages
256
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2018-08-28
ISBN
0062846949 9780062846945
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"This was a book about relationships and life and being content with the things you have, small as they may be which is funny because the book is about too upper middle class, pushing upper class people. I like that about it the most, the way it weeded out the surface pleasures to make way for the most important things."
"literally amazing. the characters are compelling and have believable relationships, the plot is interesting, and there’s a talking cat who has the soul of a late rich dude in him. what more could you want tbh"
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wilbur
"Funny, rich crazy people"
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