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Ablutions

Written by: Patrick DeWitt
Narrated by: Patrick Dewitt
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In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars .But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn't break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption.

Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences.
©2009 Patrick deWitt (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Psychological Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction
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  • 2020-02-02

An adult allegory, beware of what you can become.

Raw and mesmerizing, a perfect example of a seemingly never ending hell a person can get trapped in. The author narrates in the only way you could imagine a person who is unattached and drifting aimlessly through life would sound.

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