French Exit by Patrick deWitt6/3/2023 ![]() Reynard, aggressive houseguest and dementedly friendly American expat. In this entertaining novel (subtitled a 'tragedy of manners') that lampoons the one percent, deWitt (The Sisters Brothers). Patrick DeWitt shows enormous sympathy for his flawed characters. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, and the inimitable Mme. Brimming with pathos, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind tragedy of manners, a send-up of high society. 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. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. ![]() ![]() And then there’s the Prices' 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. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. From 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 disintegrationįrances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. ![]()
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