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Patrick deWitt

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born
in Sidney, Canada
March 06, 1975

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Patrick deWitt was born on Vancouver Island in 1975. He is the author of Help Yourself Help Yourself (2007, Teenage Teardrops), Ablutions (Feb. 09, Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt/Granta), which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice book, and The Sisters Brothers (May 2011, Ecco/House of Anansi). He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife and son.


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Average rating: 3.82 · 27,767 ratings · 4,219 reviews · 7 distinct works · Similar authors
The Sisters Brothers
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 26,619 ratings — published 2011 — 40 editions
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Ablutions: Notes for a Novel
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 1,054 ratings — published 2009 — 13 editions
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Help Yourself Help Yourself
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2007
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“...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.”
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“I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.”
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“We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.”
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