French Exit
NOW A MAJOR FILM
«DeWitt is a promiscuous writer, flirting and subverting a different genre with each new novel. With French Exit he has served up a wry, soufflé-light, European-style comedy … A diverting oddball tale that treads just the right line between bite and whimsy»
Metro
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.
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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 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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781526601193
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«DeWitt is a promiscuous writer, flirting and subverting a different genre with each new novel. With French Exit he has served up a wry, soufflé-light, European-style comedy … A diverting oddball tale that treads just the right line between bite and whimsy»
Metro
«A Preston Sturges-esque satire on New York’s moneyed classes and the casual brutality of their emotional lives, with more than a whiff of The Royal Tenenbaums … Think Cary Grant’s uptight paleontologist trading barbs with Katharine Hepburn’s blithe heiress in Bringing Up Baby’»
Telegraph
«DeWittland is a place of exaggerated, creeping horror; a place populated by unfeeling characters who engage in bouts of baroque violence; above all a place suffused with grim humour. It's also a place in which the limits of genre are explored»
Daily Telegraph
«Disarmingly funny ... DeWitt can inject so much exposition with a single sentence that the reader seldom feels the need for elaboration … True to the theatrical form deWitt appears to have been inspired by, French Exit includes multiple layers of meaning and social commentary, wrapped up in a whip-smart package that cracks with wit and wordplay»
Quill and Quire
«From the author of the masterpiece of comic taciturnity The Sisters Brothers, French Exit is a “tragedy of manners” delivered with similar devastating wit and brilliance … Combining Edward St Aubyn levels of social awfulness with a masterclass in understated absurdity, any new deWitt novel should be a cause for a national holiday, this one deserving champagne, fireworks and a marching band besides»
Strong Words
«If you liked Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple, you’ll love the quirky characters and sharp humour of French Exit»
Good Housekeeping
«A highly enjoyable read … deWitt’s style is nothing if not idiosyncratic, and his elevated language – played for particular comic effect when it comes to dialogue – is perfectly suited to affectionately chiding upper-class mores … The tenderness between Frances, her son and her old friend Joan is of the real stuff»
Esquire
«Frances and Malcolm are terrific characters, immediately arresting … The greatest achievement of French Exit however is the glamorous, formidable Frances; eccentric, highly intelligent, cold-blooded in both personal and business relationships, she's as witty as any Evelyn Waugh mother … A terrible tale of self-ruin more akin to Gatsby or Patrick Melrose than the Wodehouse or Mitford stories it initially conjures … Faintly comparable to Waugh's A Handful of Dust»
Big Issue
«If you like Paris, cats, dark humour and satire this is the book for you … With a unique cast of characters and an unusual relationships the book is both witty and warm»
Living France
«A breezily enjoyable social comedy … Frances and Malcolm make for a memorable double act, with Frances in particular zinging out waspish one-liners»
The Times
«Patrick deWitt has taken all of what I usually expect and want from a story, misted it in Chanel No 5, and set to it an immeasurably classy lighter. Love it»
Natasha Pulley, bestselling author of 'The Watchmaker of Filigree Street'
«An accomplished comic novel shot through with DeWitt’s trademark genre defiance and caustic sense of humour»
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