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French exit : a tragedy of manners / Patrick deWitt.

By: Publisher: Toronto : Anansi, 2018Description: 244 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1487004834
  • 9781487004835 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Fiction (pbk) Flesherton Branch Shelves FIC DeWit (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 10/05/2024 32241001117417
Fiction (pbk) Kimberley Branch Shelves FIC DeWit (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36990002008779
Fiction (pbk) Markdale Branch Shelves FIC DeWit (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33436003128094

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.

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