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Patrick deWitt


Born
in Sidney, Canada
March 06, 1975

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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. ...more

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Average rating: 3.77 · 122,459 ratings · 13,709 reviews · 16 distinct works • Similar authors
The Sisters Brothers
3.83 avg rating — 86,908 ratings — published 2011 — 83 editions
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French Exit
3.54 avg rating — 17,077 ratings — published 2018 — 28 editions
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Undermajordomo Minor
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Ablutions
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Patrick deWitt is known for his quirks in prose, characters, and plotlines. French Exit , his fourth and latest, is a darkly comedic look at how...
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Quotes by Patrick deWitt

“The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
tags: insomnia, restless, restlessness, sleeplessness
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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.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
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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.”
― Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
tags: family
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