FRENCH EXIT (Signed - First US Edition, First Printing)

deWitt, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0062846922 / ISBN 13: 9780062846921

Published by Ecco Press, New York, NY, 2018

About this Item

A very fine, unread, American first edition and first printing, signed, dated on the title page. Along with his signature, the author has dated this copy October 24, 2018. Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize; in very collectible condition. Dated in the year of publication.

Seller Inventory # 001320

Bibliographic Details

• Title: FRENCH EXIT (Signed - First US Edition, First Printing)
• Publisher: Ecco Press, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062846922
• ISBN 13: 9780062846921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

National Bestseller

NAMED A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF THE SEASON BY:
Vanity Fair • Entertainment Weekly • Vulture • The Millions • Publishers Weekly • Esquire • San Francisco Chronicle • USA Today • Parade • The Washington Post • Buzzfeed 

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 disintegration.

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 economical ruin – to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, and a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, to name a few.  

Brimming with pathos, French Exit is a one-of-a-kind 'tragedy of manners,' a send-up of high society, as well as a moving mother/son caper which only Patrick deWitt could conceive and execute. 

About the Author

Patrick deWitt is the author of The Librarianist and French Exit (both national bestsellers); The Sisters Brothers (a New York Times bestseller short-listed for the Booker Prize); and the critically acclaimed Undermajordomo Minor and Ablutions. Born in British Columbia, Canada, he now resides in Portland, Oregon.