French Exit

French Exit

Published:
2018-08-28
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ISBN:
9781487004835
Meeting:
2020-10-05 (meeting #45)
Chosen by:
Val
Pages:
248
File size (e-book):
604 KB
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Description:

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 economic ruin — to riotous effect.

Author Details:

Patrick deWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. Born on Vancouver Island, deWitt now lives in Portland, Oregon, and has acquired American citizenship. As of 2023, he has written five novels: Ablutions, The Sisters Brothers, Undermajordomo Minor, French Exit and The Librarianist.