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Patrick deWitt


Born
in Sidney, Canada
March 06, 1975

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Patrick deWitt is the author of the novels French Exit (a national bestseller), 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, he now resides in Portland, Oregon.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 162,807 ratings · 18,990 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors
The Sisters Brothers
3.85 avg rating — 98,413 ratings — published 2011 — 47 editions
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French Exit
3.55 avg rating — 26,601 ratings — published 2018 — 43 editions
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Under Major Domo Minor
3.74 avg rating — 15,496 ratings — published 2015 — 44 editions
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The Librarianist
3.41 avg rating — 16,506 ratings — published 2023 — 20 editions
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Ablutions
3.65 avg rating — 5,560 ratings — published 2009 — 37 editions
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The Bastard
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3.91 avg rating — 321 ratings — published 2016
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The Big Why
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3.68 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions
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Electric Literature no. 3 (...
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3.77 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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The Minus Times Collected: ...
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4.47 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
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Help Yourself Help Yourself
4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1974 — 6 editions
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“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
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