Patrick deWitt

Working at a decaying Hollywood bar while making notes for the novel he hopes to write, a bartender is drawn into the alcoholic oblivion that affects his customers, losing his wife, his goals, and himself in the process.

"Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle's master, Baron Von Aux. He also encounters the colorful people of the local village--thieves, madmen, aristocrats, and Klara, a delicate beauty whose love he must compete for with the exceptionally handsome soldier, Adolphus. Thus begins a tale of polite theft, bitter heartbreak, domestic mystery, and cold-blooded murder in which every aspect of human behavior is laid bare for our hero to observe."

Bankrupted by her infamous litigator husband's tabloid death, a scandal-fearing widow flees New York for Paris, where she and her deadbeat son navigate near-comic self-destructive choices.

"Siedemnastoletni Lucien Minor po śmierci swojego ojca rozpoczyna pracę jako podmajordomus na zamku barona von Aux. Podczas kolejnych tygodni służby odkrywa ciemne sekrety życia posiadłości, a także wrasta w kolorowy świat pobliskiego miasteczka, pełen złodziejaszków i typów spod ciemnej gwiazdy. Poznaje również piękną i delikatną Klarę. Mimo że dziewczyna jest zaręczona z pewnym wyjątkowo przystojnym żołnierzem, Lucy zakochuje się w niej bez pamięci. Powieść deWitta to nie tylko fascynująca historia obyczajowo-przygodowa nawiązująca do klasyki gatunku, ale przede wszystkim niesamowita podróż przez zawiły świat miłości."--

Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Commodore has ordered it, and his henchmen, Eli and Charlie Sisters, will make sure of it. Though Eli doesn't share his brother's appetite for whiskey and killing, he's never known anything else. But their prey isn't an easy mark, and on the road from Oregon City to Warm's gold-mining claim outside Sacramento, Eli begins to question what he does for a living - and whom he does it for. With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters - losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life - and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humor, melancholy, and grit of the Old West, and two brothers bound by blood, violence, and love.

A larger-than-life version of American painter Rockwell Kent meets Newfoundland explorer Bob Bartlett in the town of Brigus, and the characteristics of their relationship reveal life in small town Newfoundland in the early part of the 20th century.